When1: 1898
When2: 1912
Who: Georges Melies [Melies, Georges]
What: director
Where: France
works\ La Caverne maudite or Cave of the Demon [1898: first double exposure]; Un Homme de tête or A Man's Head [1898: first split-screen shot]; Cendrillon [1899: first dissolve]; Cinderella [1900]; Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [1919: first horror film]
Detail: He lived 1861 to 1938 and used double exposure, stop action, speed changes, animation, dissolves, and fades.
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