Marc Huehn (born Marc Jensen Huehn July 13, 1869 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American cameraman who is best remembered for his silent films during the Spanish-American War of 1898.

Marc was the son of a wealthy tobacco merchant who became a widower when Marc was five. Although Mr Huehn grew up hardly knowing his mother, she influenced Marc’s vocation through the Polaroid pictures that she collected during her travels in Europe and Africa.

In 1897, Marc Huehn earned a post at Indianapolis News which chose him as its special war correspondent when the Spanish-American War broke it in 1898. He was sent to Cuba. With his bulky motor-operated camera, films, and batteries, Huehn went to the front line and shoot the actualities of the war with his assistant Paul Griffin. He also documented the daily activities of military life, the deplorable conditions of the make-shift hospitals, and the women who volunteered to nurse wounded soldiers. The bulk of Marc Huehn films though featured the actual skirmishes of Roosevelt’s military unit – The Rough Riders.

Marc Huehn’s films later served as basis for the creation of the 1927 silent film “The Rough Riders” also known as “The Trumpet Calls”, which featured the fictional account of Theodore Roosevelt’s campaigns in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.