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Jan Kříženecký

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Parents
  
Norbert Kříženeský

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Died
  
9 February 1921, Prague, Czech Republic

Movies
  
The Billsticker and the Sausage Vendor, Smích a pláč, The Old Bachelor's Dream

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Jan Kříženecký (20 March 1868 Praha – 9 February 1921) was Czech cinema pioneer, director, cinematographer and photographer.

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He started his work as an architecture student (his brother Rudolf Kříženecký also studied architecture and become architect). In collaboration with actor Josef Šváb-Malostranský, he filmed three comic short films (Dostaveníčko ve mlýnici, Plač a smích and Výstavní párkař a lepič plakátů) and more documentary short films. They were first exhibited in June 1898 at the Architecture and Engineering Exhibition in Prague. Kříženecký directed film up to year 1910, later he documented Prague for municipal authority as a photographer.

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Jan Kříženecký Wikipedia