American Mutoscope and Biograph Founders 1895

Elias Bernard Koopman (1860 – August 23, 1929) was a founder of 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 ...

. He was also a founder of The Magic Introduction Company. He later headed the Runsyne Corporation, a maker of electrical signs.

Biography

He was born in 1860. In 1895 with

William Kennedy 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 Herman Casler and Henry Marvin he founded the

. He

committed suicide Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders (including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders), physical disorders (such as chronic fatigue syndrome), and subs ...

by stabbing himself in the abdomen in 1929 in the Hotel Cumberland. He was taken to the hospital while still alive, but he died a few hours later. He left a note for his brother, Harry Koopman telling him of his intentions. In the note he asked that his family not mourn for him. He also asked that his body be donated to science. He was 69 years old.

Patents

* pocket lamp

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1860 births 1929 deaths 1929 suicides Suicides by sharp instrument in the United States Suicides in New York City {{US-business-bio-1860s-stub