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Woodsworth Donisthorpe

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1847 - 1914

Leeds - West Yorkshire - England - UK

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Biography

Wordsworth Donisthorpe was an English individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast. In 1876, Donisthorpe filed for a patent for a film camera, which he named a "kinesigraph." The object of the invention was to: “facilitate the taking of a succession of photographic pictures at equal intervals of time, in orde

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