Siegmund Lubin

Siegmund Lubin (April 20th 1851 - September 11th 1923) was an American business man and pioneer of the cinema. Siegmund Lubszynski was born with Breslau, in a German Jewish family. He emigrated in the United States in 1876 when he opened a store of optics in the town of Philadelphia. He bought the camera of Charles Jenkins and made several films in the city. He built then his own apparatuses, founded the Lublin Manufacturing Company in 1902 and opened the first cinemas of Philadelphia.

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