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William Nicholas Selig (March 14, 1864 – July 15, 1948) was a vaudeville performer and pioneer of the American motion picture industry. His stage billing as Colonel Selig would be used for the rest of his career, even as he moved into film production.
May 20, 2009 · William Selig is one of the unsung heroes of the early days of cinema in Los Angeles. A jack-of-all-trades, he worked as a vaudeville performer and even produced a traveling minstrel show.
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William Nicholas Selig was a pioneer of the American motion picture industry. Selig was raised in Chicago. He worked as a vaudeville performer and produced a traveling minstrel show in San Francisco while still in his late teens.
William Nicholas Selig. Producer: Something Good - Negro Kiss. Born into a large Bohemian-Polish family in Chicago on March 14, 1864, William N. Selig was one of the true pioneers of the motion picture industry.
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William N. Selig was a pioneer developer of the motion picture industry who made California film history in 1907 with his "Count of Monte Cristo." Much of the film was produced on a...
William N. Selig was a magician and later a minstrel show operator who left Chicago in poor health to travel the far western and southern states. In 1896 he saw a Kinetoscope in Texas and returned to his hometown to open a commercial photographic printing studio while trying to make a motion picture projector.
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U.S. film pioneer William Selig improved the early motion-picture camera and produced some of the first feature-length films. He was also the first producer to open a motion-picture studio in Los Angeles, Calif., the locale that was eventually to become the film capital of the world.
