Alfred Lind
Søren Estrup Alfred Lind (27 March 1879 – 29 April 1959) was a Danish cinematographer, screenwriter, and film director of the silent era. Lind was a prominent director in early Scandinavian cinema, and also worked in the German film industry. He is believed to have shot the earliest surviving footage of Iceland from 1906.
Alfred Lind
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- Name
- Alfred Lind
- Birth Name
- Søren Estrup Alfred Lind
- Born
- 27 March 1879
- Birthplace
- Helsingør, Denmark
- Died
- 29 April 1959 (aged 80)
- Place of death
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Occupation
- Film Director Cinematographer Screenwriter
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Denmark
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• Name — Alfred Lind • Birth Name — Søren Estrup Alfred Lind • Born — 27 March 1879 • Birthplace — Helsingør, Denmark • Died — 29 April 1959 (aged 80) • Place of death — Copenhagen, Denmark • Other Names — Sören Estrup Alfred Lind • Occupation — Film Director Cinematographer Screenwriter • Years Active — 1906–1929
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Illustration — The Jockey of Death (1916)
Director
Director
• Den hvide slavehandels sidste offer (1911) • The Masque of Life (1915–1916) • Alkohol (1919) • Tragedy at the Royal Circus (1928) • Girls Do Not Joke (1929)
Cinematographer
Cinematographer
• The Abyss (1910) • Four Devils (1911) • The Masque of Life (1915–1916)
Still from the Danish 1913 film 'Krigens Fakkel'
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1879
Alfred Lind born at Helsingør.
1911
De fire Djævle (The Four Devils) - 1911 - Alfred Lind E Robert Dinesen (1911) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1959
Alfred Lind died at Copenhagen.
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- 1.Aitken p.390
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Aitken, Ian. The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Routledge, 2011.
- Abel, Richard. Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Taylor & Francis, 2005.
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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