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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.
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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- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Learn about William Selig, one of the first American motion picture producers and studio founders. He was a vaudeville performer, a patent challenger, and a West Coast filmmaker.
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. In...
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This chapter examines the role of Colonel William Selig in the development of Chicago's film industry. Selig was one of the most successful, and colorful, motion-picture pioneers of the 1890s and early 1900s. A native Chicagoan and traveling magician, Selig conferred the title “Colonel” upon himself while touring the minstrel show circuit.
In histories of Hollywood, most authors have forgotten or misplaced William Selig, the man who built the first movie studio in the Hollywood area, and who is more responsible than any other single person for bringing the motion picture industry to Southern California.
- Andrew A. Erish
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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.
