Alfred Lind

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Søren Estrup Alfred Lind (born March 27, 1879 in Helsingør , Denmark , † April 29, 1959 in Copenhagen , Denmark) was a Danish cameraman, screenwriter and director of the silent film era .

Life

After training as a carpenter, he turned to the new medium of film. He made his first film in 1906, in the same year he opened the first cinema in Reykjavík , Iceland . He was director of the Danish company Nordisk Film and Fotorama in Aarhus from 1910 to 1912. Lind was one of the most famous directors of early Scandinavian film, but he also filmed in Germany and Italy. After the emergence of talkies, he ended his career as a filmmaker and worked as a carpenter. From 1940 he was married to the actress Gertrude Auguste Emmy Barras, née Rude Nick (March 23, 1884-?). He died at the age of 80 and is buried on Søndermark Kirkegård Frederiksberg.

It is believed that the earliest surviving film footage of Iceland was made by him in 1906.

Filmography (director)

  • 1910: two kinds of love
  • 1911: Dæmons
  • 1911: De fire djævle
  • 1912: Bjørnetæmmeren
  • 1912: The flying circus
  • 1912: Dødssejleren
  • 1912: Slægten
  • 1913: Af en Opdagers Dagbog
  • 1913: The hemmelige tract
  • 1913: His Life for the Cause

literature

  • Richard Abel (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Routledge, London et al. 2005, ISBN 0-415-23440-9 .
  • Ian Aitken (Ed.): The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Routledge, Abingdon 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-59642-8 .
  • Hans-Michael Bock , Tim Bergfelder (Ed.): The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema (= Film Europa. German Cinema in an international Context. Vol. 1). Berghahn Books, New York NY et al. 2009, ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ian Aitken (ed.): The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. 2011, p. 390.
personal data
SURNAME Lind, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lind, Søren Estrup Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish cameraman, screenwriter and director during the silent film era
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsinore , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1959
Place of death Copenhagen , Denmark