As Director, As Writer
The Return of a Merry Fellow
1902
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Kazimierz Prószyński
Directing
Birth Date
April 4, 1874
Place of Birth
Warsaw, Poland
Date of Death
March 13, 1945
Biography
Kazimierz Prószyński (4 April 1875 – 13 March 1945), born in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish inventor active in the field of cinema. He patented his first film camera, called Pleograph (in Polish spelling: Pleograf), before the Lumière brothers, and later went on to improve the cinema projector for the Gaumont company, as well as invent the widely used hand-held Aeroscope camera.
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