- Is the father of rock star David Crosby
- Floyd Crosby was the father of Rock and Roll legend David Crosby of The Byrds and Crosby Stills Nash & Young.
- He was the first to shoot underwater footage in three strip Technicolor.
- A meeting with William Beebe led to a job as an apprentice photographer on the Beebe Haitian Expedition. This experience led to an assignment with Robert J. Flaherty and F.W. Murnau to shoot Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931). He specialized in documentaries for the next two decades.
- He began a career on Wall Street. He later attended the New York Institute of Photography.
- During World War II, he was a member of the Air Force Transport Command where he rose to the ramk of major. He made reference films for pilots.
- Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).
- He was an Academy Award-winning American cinematographer, descendant of the Van Rensselaer family.
- He filmed the Bedaux expedition in 1934.
- Crosby served as a cinematographer for the U.S. Army Air Corps film wing, and made flight training films in World War II. He left the Air Corps in 1946.
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