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Occupation
  
Inventor

Role
  
Film cinematographer


Name
  
Enoch Rector

Known for
  
Children
  
Anne Elizabeth Rector

Born
  
October 9, 1863 (
1863-10-09
)

Died
  
January 26, 1957, New York City, New York, United States

Movies
  
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight

Enoch J. Rector (October 9, 1863 – January 26, 1957) was an American boxing film promoter and early cinema technician. He was a partner in Woodville Latham's Kinetoscope Exhibition Company (later the Lambda Company) during the mid-1890s, working with Latham and his sons Otway and Grey, as well as fellow cinema technicians William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and Eugene Lauste.

Cinema historian Terry Ramsaye later claimed that Rector, during his association with Latham, invented the 'Latham loop', a key feature of modern cinema cameras and projectors, in 1895. However, in 1927 Dickson stated unequivocally that Lauste was responsible for this important invention. Using this technique, Rector created the 90-minute documentary film The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897), filmed in an early widescreen process in 63mm film, with an aspect ratio of about 1.75:1.

Biography

He was born near Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1863. He later attended West Virginia University. He married Jesse Fremont Leach (1871-1956), a designer of glass furniture. She was named after her mother's friend at boarding school, Jessie Benton, later wife of Charles Fremont. Jesse had a sister, Anna Russell Leach (1860-1952), a writer for the New York Times. He had a daughter, Anne Elizabeth Rector (1899-1970) who was married to Edmund Duffy.

References

Enoch J. Rector Wikipedia


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