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About Fred (Friedrich) Figner
Fred Figner (2 December 1866 Milevsko [1] - 19 January 1947 Rio de Janeiro [4]), also known as Frederico Figner, born as Friedrich Fiegner[1], was a Czech-born entrepreneur, cinema and music industry pioneer mostly in South America.
He was Jewish emigrant, who lived in the United States and landed in Belém, Brazil in 1891. He traveled to many regions of Brazil doing public exhibitions of Edison's phonograph. Nine years later Figner settled down in Rio de Janeiro, where he established in 1900 the Casa Edison, the first commercial recording company in Brazil. Such company is considered a pioneer in recording and selling Brazilian popular music. He also founded Odeon, the first Brazilian factory of phonograph records.
In 1896 he filmed in Argentina what are now considered the first three films of the country. Figner's three films consisted of short depictions of sights of the city of Buenos Aires (named Vistas de Palermo, La Avenida de Mayo and La Plaza de Mayo) and were screened 24 November 1896.[2][3]
Little is known of Figner regarding his filming activities, and his work is usually obscured by that of Eugenio Py's, a Frenchman who filmed in 1897 La Bandera Argentina ("The Argentine Flag").
[1] Birth: HBMa Fond 1073 Milevsko inv. č. 1238 N 1866 Folio 87 (256)
[2] Caneto, Guillermo (1996). Historia de la primeros años de cine en la Argentina, 1895-1910. BuenosAires: Editorial Fundación Cinematica Argentina. pp. 32, 34.
[3] Abel, Richard (2005). Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Abingdon - UK: Routledge. pp. 37–38. ISBN 978-0415778565.
[4] Death: "Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Registro Civil, 1829-2012," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WY2K-K82M : 9 April 2020), Frederico Figner, ; citing Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Corregedor Geral da Justicia (Inspector General of Justice Offices), Rio de Janeiro.
- Arrival Salvador, Bahia, Brasil (1892): "Brasil, Bahia, Salvador, Relações de passagieros e imigrantes, 1855-1964", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7BMM-BTT2 : 30 October 2019), Frederik Figner, 1892.
- Arrival Salvador, Bahia, Brasil (1913): "Brasil, Bahia, Salvador, Relações de passagieros e imigrantes, 1855-1964", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WMX9-GXW2 : 30 October 2019), Fred Figner, 1913.
(Adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Figner)
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Fred (Friedrich) Figner's Timeline
| 1866 |
December 2, 1866
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Mühlhausen 96, Milevsko, Czechia (Czech Republic)
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| 1898 |
November 23, 1898
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Niterói, RJ, Brazil
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| 1900 |
May 26, 1900
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Niterói, RJ, Brazil
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| 1901 |
November 23, 1901
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Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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| 1908 |
May 30, 1908
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Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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| 1913 |
1913
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Brazil
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| 1947 |
January 19, 1947
Age 80
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Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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