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Jean Vigo
Film director. Born Paris to an anarchist father. Vigo's two important films are Zero for Conduct (1933) and L'Atalante (1934). Vigo's anarchism is discussed at Libcom. Died Paris.
Eadweard Muybridge
Photographer and motion picture pioneer. Born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames. He changed his name, probably inspired by the recent discovery in Kingston of a Saxon coronation stone...
R. W. Paul
Robert William Paul was a cinema pioneer, inventor, manufacturer, producer, exhibitor and cinematographer, based in Muswell Hill where he designed and constructed Britain's first film studio. Born...
Biograph Theatre
Designed by architect Keith D. Young, for light entertainment and music hall, and named the Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms. In 1900, it was re-named Wandsworth Palace of Varieties, and showed animated...
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