biograph
Speech parts
1. biograph - Noun
2. biograph - Verb
Meaning
(rare) A biographical essay.
An early device to show moving pictures on a screen.
biograph (third-person singular simple present biographs, present participle biographing, simple past and past participle biographed)
(rare, transitive) To write a biography of.
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American Mutoscope and Biograph was the first known company to use this for the Jeffries Sharkey fight on November 3, 1899.
Edison began negotiation with Biograph in May 1908 to reorganize the Edison licensing system.
In Britain, they became known as " What the butler saw " machines, taking the name from one of the first and most famous softcore reels. citation citation Publications *The Biograph in Battle (T.
He had contacts with Leon Gaumont and the American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. In 1898 he also became a shareholder of the Biograph and Mutoscope Company for France.
In his Biograph days, Griffith had directed two films with prehistoric settings: Man's Genesis (1912) and Brute Force (1914).
Most Biograph actors earned $5 a day but, after Pickford's single day in the studio, Griffith agreed to pay her $10 a day against a guarantee of $40 a week.