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William Friese Greene was born on 7 September, 1855 in Bristol, England. He was a British portrait photographer and creative inventor. He is mainly known as a initiator in the field of motion pictures and is recognized by some as the inventor of cinematography.
On 21 June 1889, Friese-Greene patented his 'chronophotographic' camera. It was actually capable of captivating up to ten photographs per second via perforated celluloid film. On 28 February, 1890, a detailed study on the camera was published in the British Photographic News. On 18 March, Friese-Greene sent a article of the story to Thomas Edison, whose laboratory had been budding a motion picture system that was known as the Kinetoscope. On 19 April in Scientific American, the details was reprinted. Friese-Greene gave a free exhibition in 1890 but he did not succeed. In the early 1890s, he experimented with cameras to make stereoscopic moving images but he did not achieve result as expected. He died on 5 May, 1921.