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Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
Victor Sjöström
Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor (1879-1960)
Dadasaheb Phalke
Indian film producer, director and screenwriter (1870–1944)
Manakis brothers
sibling duo
Roman Karmen
Soviet cameraman and film director (1906-1978)
Oscar Micheaux
American writer and director (1884-1951)
Jan Szczepanik
Polish inventor (1872-1926)
Kazimierz Prószyński
Polish inventor (1875-1945)
Segundo de Chomón
Spanish-French film director, cinematographer and animator (1871-1929)
Zhang Shichuan
founding father of Chinese cinema (1890-1954)
Alexandre Michon
Russian film director and cinematographer (1858–1921)
Joseph Timchenko
Ukrainian inventor (1852–1924)
Zheng Zhengqiu
Chinese film director (1889-1935)
Alexandre Promio
French film director and cinematographer (1868–1926)
Filoteo Alberini
Italian cinematographer (1867–1937)
Johann Schwarzer
Photographer; Film director (1880–1914)
Albert Samama-Chikli
Tunisian film maker (1872–1934)
Peter Elfelt
Danish film director and photographer (1866–1931)
Emanuel Goldberg
Pioneer of information science (1881–1970)
Bolesław Matuszewski
Polish photographer (1856–1943)
August Musger
Austrian physicist (1868–1929)
Hou Yao
Chinese film director, screenwriter, and film theorist
Karol Grossmann
cinematographer
Hong Shen
Chinese playwright
Eduardo Jimeno
Spanish film director (1870–1947)
Fred Figner
Czech-born Jewish emigrant; Bohemiam-North American entrepreneur living in Brazil
Jan Kříženecký
Czech architect, photographer, actor, cameraman and director (1868-1921)
Wan Laiming
Chinese animator
Wan Guchan
Chinese animator (1900–1995)
Vittorio Calcina
Italian photographer and filmmaker