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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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Oct 21, 2022 · Everett had rediscovered a lost moment in film history: William N. Selig’s 1898 short film Something Good-Negro Kiss, the earliest known depiction of black intimacy on screen, starring actors...
William Selig. William Nicholas Selig was a pioneer of the American motion picture industry. Selig was raised in Chicago. He worked as a vaudeville performer and produced a traveling minstrel show in San Francisco while still in his late teens.
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...
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William Nicholas Selig (14 March 1864 – 15 July 1948) was an early American cinema pioneer. He founded the Selig Polyscope Company that made the first films of the Oz books of L. Frank Baum.
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.
