Siegmund Lubin
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| Born | Siegmund Lubszynski April 20, 1851 Breslau or Posnan |
| Died | Error: Need valid death date (first date): year, month, day Ventnor, New Jersey |
| Nationality | German, US |
| Other names | Siegmund Lubszynski "Pop" Lubin |
| Occupation | Optometrist, inventor, film-maker, industrialist |
| Spouse(s) | Annie Abrams (m. 1882–1923) |
Siegmund Lubin (April 20, 1851 – September 11, 1923) was a German-American motion picture pioneer.
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Biography
He was born as Siegmund Lubszynski in Breslau or Posen, Silesia, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) on April 20, 1851, to a German Jewish family, in which his father was a successful ophthalmologist.[1] In 1876 he emigrated to the United States, where he also worked as an optometrist in Philadelphia.[2]
He soon progressed to making his own camera and projector combination, which he sold. In 1896 he began distributing films for Thomas Edison. In 1897 he started making films and in 1902 formed the Lubin Manufacturing Company, incorporating it in 1909.[2] His company also sold illegally copied prints of many films by other directors, notably those of Georges Méliès, making Lubin one of the foremost early practitioners of film piracy.[3]
By 1910 his company had built a film studio, "Lubinville", in Philadelphia,[2] at Twentieth Avenue and Indiana Street.[1]
A fire at its studio in June 1914 destroyed the negatives for his unreleased new films. When World War I broke out in Europe in September of that year, Lubin Studios, and other American filmmakers, lost foreign sales. After making more than a thousand motion pictures, on September 1, 1917, the Lubin Film Company went out of business.[2]
He went back to work as an optometrist.
He died on September 11, 1923 at his home in Ventnor, New Jersey.[2][4] He was buried on September 14, 1923.[5]
Legacy
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Siegmund Lubin has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (with his first name as "Sigmund") at 6166 Hollywood Blvd.[6]
References
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- The King of the Movies: Film Pioneer, Siegmund Lubin - biographical page with time line and other material by Joseph P. Eckhardt, Professor of History, Montgomery County Community College
- Lubinville (film) on YouTube
- WHYY, Ed Cunningham's Philadelphia, Siegmund Lubin, Video
- Siegmund Lubin: King of the Movies,
Betzwood, Digital History from the Libraries of Montgomery County Community College
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