Friese-Greene, William (1855-1921), was an outstanding British inventor of photographic devices. In the late 1800’s, he tried ways of depicting movement by projecting a series of photographs rapidly. He opened a photographic business in London and designed film projectors. He also experimented to find a suitable material for film. In 1889, he proposed a sensitized celluloid ribbon film as the most satisfactory medium. He became bankrupt in 1891 but resumed experiments the next year and took out many patents for improvements in cinematographic mechanisms. Friese-Greene was born in Bristol and was educated there at Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital.
