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| x Robert Cook |
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Digital cartoon and animation process |
Robert Cook is co-founder and SVP Platform Partnerships at Metaweb. You can find out more about him at his Freebase user page.
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| x Patrick Tufts |
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Use of web usage trail data to identify related links |
Patrick Tufts is a computer scientist and inventor. He created Alexa Internet's collaborative filter and later, one of Amazon.com's most successful product recommendation systems. He is also a Wikipedia editor.
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| x Nikola Tesla |
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Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospić, Vojna Krajina, in the territory of today's Croatia. He was an ethnic Serb...
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| x Gideon Sundback | Zipper |
Otto Frederick Gideon Sundbäck (April 24, 1880 – June 21, 1954) was a Swedish-Canadian inventor. He made several advances in the development of the zipper between 1906 and 1914, while working for companies that later evolved into Talon, Inc. He...
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| x Trevor Blackwell |
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Eunicycle |
Trevor Blackwell (born 4 November 1969 in Canada) is a computer programmer based in Silicon Valley.
Blackwell is a developer of humanoid robots. He is also the inventor of the Eunicycle, essentially a one-wheeled Segway. Dr. Blackwell is the founder...
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| x Josephine Cochrane |
Josephine Garis Cochran (1839—August 3, 1913) made the first practical mechanical dishwasher in 1886, in Shelbyville, Illinois., although a mechanical hand-powered dishwashing device was patented in 1850 by Joel Houghton (see Dishwasher, History)....
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| x Oliver Joseph Lodge |
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Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph. Lodge, in his Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), coined the term...
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| x Stephanie Kwolek |
Stephanie Louise Kwolek (born July 31, 1923) is an Polish-American chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide—better known as Kevlar. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Kwolek has won numerous awards...
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| x Elihu Thomson |
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Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853 – March 13, 1937) was an engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, United Kingdom and France.
He was born in Manchester (England) on 29 March 1853,...
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| x Leopold Mannes | Reversal film |
Leopold Damrosch Mannes (December 26, 1899 – August 11, 1964) was an American musician, born in New York City, who, together with Leopold Godowsky, Jr., created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome.
Leopold Mannes was son of David...
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| x John P. Hogan |
John Paul Hogan (born August 7, 1919) is an American research chemist. Along with Robert Banks he discovered methods of producing polypropylene and high-density polyethylene.
Hogan was born in Lowes, Kentucky and earned B.S. degrees in both...
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| x George Herman Babcock |
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George Herman Babcock (June 17, 1832 – December 16, 1893) was an American inventor. He co-invented an improved safety water tube steam boiler. Together with Stephen Wilcox he founded the Babcock & Wilcox boiler company.
George H. Babcock is famous...
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| x Hugo Borchardt |
Hugo Borchardt (June 6, 1844-May 8, 1924) was a firearms inventor and engineer, born in Magdeburg, Germany. He is known for his inventions of the Borchardt C-93 pistol and the Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 rifle.
In 1860 he emigrated to the United...
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| x Ray Dolby |
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Ray Dolby (born January 18, 1933) is the American inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He was also a co-inventor of video tape recording while at Ampex. He is the founder and chairman of Dolby Laboratories.
Dolby was born in...
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| x Frederick Marriott |
Frederick Marriott (c. 1805 – c. 1884) was an early aviation pioneer and creator of the Avitor Hermes Jr. which was the first unmanned aircraft to fly under its own power in the United States. Marriott is given credit for coining the term "aeroplane...
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| x John Browning |
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John Moses Browning (January 21 or January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed many varieties of firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the...
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| x Ernest H. Volwiler |
Ernest Henry Volwiler (August 22, 1893-October 3, 1992) spent his entire career at Abbott Laboratories working his way from staff chemist to CEO.
A Hamilton, Ohio native, Volwiler received a bachelor's degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio...
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| x Ernő Rubik |
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Ernő Rubik (born July 13, 1944) is a Hungarian inventor, sculptor and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including Rubik's Cube, Rubik's Magic, Rubik's Snake and Rubik Sphere.
Ernő Rubik was born in...
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| x Eli Whitney |
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Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known as the inventor of the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum South. Whitney's...
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| x Bernhard Baron |
Bernhard Baron (1850 – 1929) was a Jewish cigarette-manufacturer and philanthropist. He was born at Brest-Litovsk (modern Belarus), in poor circumstances, and brought up among the Don Cossacks at Rostov. His father took him to the United States when...
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| x Alfred Carlton Gilbert |
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Alfred Carlton Gilbert (February 13, 1884 – January 24, 1961) was an American inventor, athlete, toy-maker and businessman. Born in Salem, Oregon and died in Boston, Massachusetts, Gilbert is best known as the inventor of the Erector Set.
Gilbert...
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| x Casimir Zeglen |
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Kazimierz Żegleń (Casimir Zeglen), born in 1869 near Ternopil, invented the first bulletproof vest. At the age of 18 he entered the Resurrectionist Order in Lviv. In 1890, he moved to the United States. In 1893, after the assassination of Carter...
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| x Lester Allan Pelton |
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Lester Allan Pelton (September 5, 1829 – March 14, 1908), created the most efficient form of impulse water turbine.
He was born in Vermilion, Ohio and in 1850 immigrated to Camptonville, California during the gold rush. Pelton made his living as a...
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| x Percy Spencer |
Percy LeBron Spencer (9 July, 1894 – 8 September, 1970) was an American engineer and inventor. He became known as the inventor of the microwave oven.
Spencer was born in Howland, Maine. His father died in 1897, and his mother left him a short time...
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| x Frank Whittle |
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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) officer. Sharing credit with Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain for independently inventing the jet engine, he is hailed as a...
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| x Thaddeus Cahill |
Thaddeus Cahill (1867 - 1934) was a prominent inventor of the early 20th century. He is widely credited with the invention of the first electromechanical musical instrument, which he dubbed the telharmonium. Cahill had tremendous ambitions for his...
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| x Etienne Lenoir |
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Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir (January 12, 1822 - August 4, 1900) was a Belgian engineer.
He was born in Mussy-la-Ville (then in Luxembourg, part of Belgium from 1839). By the early 1850s he had emigrated to France, taking up residence in Paris, where...
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| x Norbert Rillieux |
Norbert Rillieux (March 17, 1806 – October 8, 1894), an American inventor and engineer, is most noted for his invention of the multiple-effect evaporator, an energy-efficient means of evaporating water. This invention was an important development in...
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| x Bruno Abakanowicz |
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Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz (October 6, 1852 - August 29, 1900) was a mathematician, inventor and electrical engineer.
Abakanowicz was born in 1852 in Vilkmergė, Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire (formerly the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later part...
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| x Charles Proteus Steinmetz |
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was a German-American mathematician and electrical engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the...
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| x Alphonse Pénaud |
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Alphonse Pénaud (May 31, 1850 – October 22, 1880), was a 19th-century French pioneer of aviation, inventor of the rubber powered model airplane Planophore and founder of the aviation industry.
Pénaud was born in Paris into a family of sailors. His...
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| x Margarete Steiff |
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Steiff is a German-based plush toy company known for its high quality and equally high prices. It was begun in 1880 by Margarete Steiff, who was later assisted by her brother Fritz. Their nephew Richard joined in 1897, who gave the company an...
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| x Leopold Godowsky, Jr. | Reversal film |
Leopold Godowsky, Jr. (May 27, 1900 - February 18, 1983) was an American violinist and chemist, who together with Leopold Mannes created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome.
Mannes and Godowsky's experimentation with color...
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| x Charles Martin Hall |
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Charles Martin Hall (December 6, 1863–December 27, 1914) was an American inventor and engineer. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since...
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| x Juanelo Turriano |
Juanelo Turriano (Spanish name) or Gianello Torriano (Italian), also known as Giovanni Torriani (c. 1500 — 1585), was an Italian-Spanish clock maker, engineer and mathematician. He was born in Cremona.
Called to Spain in 1529 by Charles V, Holy...
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| x Goldsworthy Gurney |
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Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793–1875) was a surgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, builder and prototypical British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian period.
Amongst many accomplishments, he developed the oxy-hydrogen...
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| x Walter Houser Brattain |
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Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902–October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. He...
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| x Richard Steiff |
Richard Steiff (February 7, 1877 – March 30, 1939) was a German inventor and entrepreneur. The nephew of the toymaker Margarete Steiff, he is credited with the designing the Steiff Company's first toy bear.
Steiff was born in Giengen, and entered...
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| x Thomas Blanchard |
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Thomas Blanchard (June 24, 1788 – April 16, 1864) was a prolific American inventor, awarded over twenty-five patents for his creations.
Born in Sutton, Massachusetts, his first machine, made and patented in 1806, was a mechanical tack-maker, which...
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| x William Shockley |
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William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was a American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in...
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| x Oliver Evans |
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Oliver Evans (13 September 1755 – 15 April 1819) was a American inventor.
Evans was born in Newport, Delaware to a family of Welsh settlers. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a wheelwright.
Evans' first invention was in 1777, when he designed a...
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| x Elias Howe |
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Sewing machine |
Elias Howe (July 9, 1819 – October 3, 1867) was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer. He was born in Spencer, Massachusetts.
Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory and...
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| x Thomas Edison |
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Incandescent light bulb | #223898 |
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long...
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| x Theodore von Karman |
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Theodore von Kármán (original Hungarian name: Szőllőskislaki Kármán Tódor) (May 11, 1881 – May 7, 1963) was a Hungarian-American engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for...
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| x Frank J. Sprague |
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Frank Julian Sprague (July 25, 1857 in Milford, Connecticut - October 25, 1934) was an American naval officer and inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators. His contributions were...
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| x Samuel Colt |
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Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 - January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist. He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now known as Colt's Manufacturing Company), and is widely credited with popularizing the...
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| x Edwin H. Land |
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Edwin Herbert Land (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and his retinex theory of color...
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| x Ole Evinrude |
Ole Evinrude, born Ole Evenrudstuen (April 19, 1877—July 12, 1934) was a Norwegian-American inventor, known for the invention of the first outboard motor with practical commercial application.
Evinrude was born in Norway and at the age of five...
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| x Carl Friedrich Meerwein |
Carl Friedrich Meerwein (2 August 1737, in Leiselheim, - 6 December 1810, in Emmendingen) was a German civil engineer and aviation pioneer.
He built flying devices with moving wings. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica he succeeded in flying...
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| x Erastus Brigham Bigelow |
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Erastus Brigham Bigelow (April 2, 1814 – December 6, 1879) was an American inventor of weaving machines. Bigelow was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts.
Erastus Bigelow showed an inventive genius the early age of 14, when he invented a machine to...
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| x John Lloyd Wright |
John Lloyd Wright (December 12, 1892 – December 20, 1972) was a U.S. architect and toy inventor. He invented Lincoln Logs in 1918. He was the son of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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| x Ottmar Mergenthaler |
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Ottmar Mergenthaler (May 11, 1854 – October 28, 1899) was a German inventor, who has been called a second Gutenberg because his invention of a machine that could easily and quickly set movable type. This machine revolutionized the art of printing....
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| x Almon Strowger |
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Almon Brown Strowger (1839 – May 26, 1902) gave his name to the electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired.
Strowger was born in Penfield, near Rochester, New York. Little information is available about...
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| x Charles Kettering |
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Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 24 or November 25, 1958) was an American inventor and the holder of 140 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research for General Motors for 27 years from 1920 to 1947. Among his...
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| x Niels Christensen |
Niels Christensen (1865-1952) was a Danish-American inventor whose principal invention was the O-ring, the ubiquitous hydraulic seal.
Niels Christensen was born in 1865 in Tørring, Denmark. He showed an early aptitude for mechanics and apprenticed...
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| x William Dickson |
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was an Anglo-Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).
Dickson was born on 3 August...
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| x Lloyd Hall |
Lloyd Augustus Hall (June 20, 1894 - January 2, 1971) was an African American chemist who contributed to the science of food preservation. By the end of his career, Hall had amassed 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also...
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| x Edmund Germer |
Edmund Germer (August 24, 1901 - August 10, 1987) was a German inventor granted as the father of the fluorescent lamp. He applied for a patent with Friedrich Meyer and Hans J. Spanner on December 10, 1926, which led to U.S. Patent 2,182,732. The...
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| x Auguste and Louis Lumière |
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The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (19 October 1862, Besançon, France – 10 April 1954, Lyon) and Louis Jean (5 October 1864, Besançon, France – 6 June 1948, Bandol ), were among the earliest filmmakers. (Appropriately, "lumière"...
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