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Friese-Greene

British  
/ ˌfriːzˈɡriːn /

noun

  1. William . 1855–1921, British photographer. He invented (with Mortimer Evans) the first practicable motion-picture camera

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“We thought we’d broken the mold and could turn the tide of history by going back to a world where the single wasn’t king,” Friese-Greene once said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2019

Still, he and his songwriting partner Tim Friese-Greene , a producer and multi- instrumentalist who served as an unofficial fourth member of Talk Talk, expected that the record would sell millions of copies.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2019

It was made for the Festival of Britain, to celebrate British ingenuity in the shape of a biopic of William Friese-Greene, one of the inventors of the movie camera.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2013

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