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Here's a better quality image - http://i.imgur.com/ABXWU.jpg

Still no luck, but a few notes -
1. The man is standing behind a movie camera, not a film camera. Note his right arm, which is parallel to the ground and appears to be winding film.
2. The man is of African descent. I've looked into black filmmakers between 1890 and 1940 and this doesn't seem to be any of the better-known ones.
3. The simple background, lack of shadows around the cameraman, and the overall "flatness" of the image leads me to consider that it may be a painting rather than a photo , though I am by no means married to this idea - just something to think about.