| LC control no. | n 96107180 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Heise, William |
| Biography/History note | William Heise was an engineer, cameraman and filmmaker, active in the 1890s and credited for more than 175 short silent films. As a machinist in Thomas Edison's laboratory, he assisted W.K.L. Dickson in the Kinetoscope experiment in October 1890. He learned photography and was the principal operator of the Edison Kinetograph camera; he also developed and printed films. He is best known for "The Kiss", an 1896 short film that depicted a kiss between stage actors, May Irwin and John Rice. Along with Dickson, he was one of the most prolific filmmakers of the early days of cinema. |
| Located | West Orange (N.J.) |
| Birth date | 1847-08 |
| Death date | 1910-02-14 |
| Place of birth | Germany |
| Field of activity | Photography Motion picture industry |
| Profession or occupation | Photographers Camera operators |
| Found in | Charity ball [MP] 1897 (name not given) Musser, C. The emergence of cinema, 1990: p. 232 (cameraman, William Heise) 1900 United States Federal Census viewed online February 12, 2016 via Ancestry.com (William Heise; age, 52 years; born, August, 1847 in Germany; lived West Orange, New Jersey in 1900) Abel, R., ed., Encyclopedia of early cinema, c2005: p. 425 (William Heise; engineer, cameraman; worked in Thomas Edison's laboratory; died, February 14, 1910) |
| Not found in | AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910, 1995; Perf. arts biog. master index, 1982; Variety obits. |
| Associated language | eng |
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