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William Nicholas Selig (March 14, 1864 – July 15, 1948) was a vaudeville performer and pioneer of the American motion picture industry. His stage billing as Colonel Selig would be used for the rest of his career, even as he moved into film production.
William Nicholas Selig. Producer: Something Good - Negro Kiss. Born into a large Bohemian-Polish family in Chicago on March 14, 1864, William N. Selig was one of the true pioneers of the motion picture industry.
Learn about William Selig, one of the first American motion picture producers and studio founders. He was a vaudeville performer, a patent challenger, and a West Coast filmmaker.
May 20, 2009 · William Selig is one of the unsung heroes of the early days of cinema in Los Angeles. A jack-of-all-trades, he worked as a vaudeville performer and even produced a traveling...
Oct 21, 2022 · Everett had rediscovered a lost moment in film history: William N. Selig’s 1898 short film Something Good-Negro Kiss, the earliest known depiction of black intimacy on screen, starring...
U.S. film pioneer William Selig improved the early motion-picture camera and produced some of the first feature-length films. He was also the first producer to open a motion-picture studio in Los Angeles, Calif., the locale that was eventually to become the film capital of the world.
Selig was one of the most successful, and colorful, motion-picture pioneers of the 1890s and early 1900s. A native Chicagoan and traveling magician, Selig conferred the title “Colonel” upon himself while touring the minstrel show circuit.
