Béla_Zsitkovszky

Béla Zsitkovszky

Béla Zsitkovszky

Hungarian cinematographer and film director

Béla Zsitkovszky (3 April 1868 - 16 September 1930) was a Hungarian cinematographer and film director. Zsitkovszky was a film pioneer notable for producing the country's first ever film The Dance (A táncz) in 1901. Zsitkovszky was a cinema projectionist who was commissioned to make a film. He shot it entirely on location as Budapest lacked a film studio.[1] In 1901 he opened the first Hungarian film laboratory.[2]

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Selected filmography

Cinematographer

References

  1. [1]
    Cunningham p.8
  2. [2]
    Cunningham p.8

Bibliography

  • Cunningham, John. Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex. Wallflower Press, 2004.
  • Kulik, Karol. Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles. Virgin Books, 1990.


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