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Überhaupt hatte er nur ein einziges Mal versucht, als Filmpionier anerkannt zu werden, und das war, als einem seiner Söhne, der in der Schule behauptet hatte, sein Vater habe die Filmkamera erfunden, demütigenderweise entgegnet wurde, daß in der Encyclopedia Britannica unter dem Stichwort »Geschichte des Films« sein Name nicht einmal erwähnt werde.
Indeed, the only occasion on which he ever attempted to establish his claim to consideration as a film pioneer was when one of his sons, who had claimed at school that his father had invented the motion-picture camera, was humiliated by the production of an Encyclopœdia Britannica article on the history of the films which did not even mention his name.
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