Arthur Weed Marvin (May 26, 1859 – January 18, 1911), was an American cinematographer who worked for the

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to film production and exhibition ...

in which his brother Harry Marvin was one of the four founders (the others being

Herman Casler Herman Casler (March 12, 1867 in Sandwich, Illinois – July 20, 1939 in Canastota, New York) was an American inventor and co-founder of the partnership called the K.M.C.D. Syndicate, along with W.K-L. Dickson, Elias Koopman, and Henry Marvin ...

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison. Early life William Kennedy Dickson was born on 3 August 1860 in ...

, and

Elias Koopman Elias Bernard Koopman (1860 – August 23, 1929) was a founder of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. He was also a founder of The Magic Introduction Company. He later headed the Runsyne Corporation, a maker of electrical signs. Biogr ...

). He shot 418 films between 1897 and 1911, including ''

The Adventures of Dollie ''The Adventures of Dollie'' is a 1908 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. It was Griffith's debut film as a director. A print of the film survives in the Library of Congress film archive. The film tells the story of a young gir ...

'' (1908), the directorial debut of D. W. Griffith, as well as other early Griffith shorts such as ''

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'' in 1909. He directed the short film ''

Sherlock Holmes Baffled ''Sherlock Holmes Baffled'' is a very short American silent film created in 1900 with cinematography by Arthur Marvin. It is the earliest known film to feature Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes, albeit in a form unlike th ...

'', which was the earliest known film to feature

Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...

's detective character

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. His nephew Daniel Warner Marvin II, Henry's son, perished in the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' in 1912.D.W. Griffith's early years; the Marvin family
He was born in

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, US to Daniel Warner Marvin and Ellen Jane Weed. He was married to Sarah E. Babcock. He died in Los Angeles, California.

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