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A man who was in a 1890s film was born in 1810
Back, nearly at the beginning of cinema, there was Thomas Edison and M.K.L. Dickson. The latter was Edison's business and creative partner in the development of motion pictures. There are some film historians that say it should be Dickson and not Edison who should be credited with the start of film.
M.K.L.Dickson directed the earliest film that's associated with the Edison Film company. It was Monkeyshines. The Monkey Shines-an Experiment in Fear motion picture of 1988 is definitely not a remake. It's a film by George Romero
of "Night of the Living Dead" and other horror cult movies
The first Monkey Shines was simply a filming of one of Edison's workers mugging for the camera.
From there, there was such short documentaries on boxing, exotic dancing, famous politicians, statesmen, kings, queens and many rather mundane domestic scenes.
It wasn't terrifically long after 1890 that the film industry went truly international. Even in the 1890's there were pictures from France, Mexico, India, Japan, Great Britain and other countries as well. Some of the directors were Lumiere, Melies, Hayot from France, Ruis and Veyres, from Mexico, Viggo Larson from Scandinavia, Birt Acres, George A. Smith, from Great Britain.
In 1898 M.K.L. Dickson directed several films of Pope Leo the Thirteenth. Pope Leo was born in 1810. So this means the history of person being in a filmed event goes back nearly two hundred years. To express it a different way, in the year 2010 it will be two hundred years since the birth of the earliest person to be in a moving picture.
For the record neither Edison nor Dickson pioneered moving pictures. The credit goes to a British man whose surname was Prince. He made two films that were each a "whopping" two seconds long!!! The first one was of his in laws going around in circles on a front lawn. The second a carriage gong over a bridge. One more thing. Pass the popcorn!!! |
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