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Re: Research assistance

>       I once saw (on TV) a documentary about a guy
>       (a Scottish immigrant?) who invented a motion
>       picture camera, but ended up being squashed by
>       Thomas Edison (inventor of a rival method).
> 
>       A good part of the show featured Fire Island
>       lighthouse as a backdrop, yet I cannot remember
>       the title or even the name of the inventor.
>       It might have been a PBS or Discovery channel
>       production...
> 
The inventor is William Friese-Greene, but I don't know what Fire Island has to
do with it--he worked in England. There was a huge movie biography of
Friese-Greene in 1952 called The Magic Box, and featuring cameos by every known
actor in the United Kingdom.


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