The Manaki brothers

The Manaki brothers (Aromanian: Frats Manachia), Yanaki and Milton (Ianachia and Milton), were two Aromanian photography and cinema pioneers within the Balkan Peninsula and the Ottoman Empire. They were the first to bring a film camera and create a motion picture in the city of Manastir (modern-day Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia), an economic and cultural center of Ottoman Rumelia. Their first film, The Weavers, was a 60-second documentary of their grandmother spinning and weaving; this is regarded as the first motion picture shot in the Balkans.

Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaki_brothers

Bogdan Stimoff (Austria, Bulgaria, Germany – 1916)

Bogdan Stimoff (Austria, Bulgaria, Germany – 1916).

Bogdan Stimoff is a 1916 silent drama film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Georg Reimers, Lotte Medelsky, and Carl Goetz. It was made as a co-production between Bulgaria, Germany and the Austrian Empire, the allied Central Powers of the First World War.

Location shooting took place around the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdan_Stimoff

Quirino Cristiani (July 2, 1896 – August 2, 1984)

Quirino Cristiani (July 2, 1896 – August 2, 1984) was an Italian-born Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world’s first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound, even though the only copies of these two films were lost in a fire. He is also the first person to create animation solely using cardboard cutouts.

Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirino_Cristiani

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