More old films

| February 27, 2009

My mother has written me a note asking whether or not the name William Heise (noted in yesterday’s post) is historical, or was I just making it up to be funny. No, Mom, it’s all too real. My namesake even has an article in Wikipedia. Anyway, I found some more early Edison films (not by [...]

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William Heise’s I have known (Part I)

| February 26, 2009

Believe it or not, there are several people with the name William Heise. The most famous William Heise is, of course, the William Heise who worked with Thomas Edison to produce some of the first motion pictures. I post an example here: All I can say to that is “Yuck!” Other examples of William Heise’s [...]

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