Alfred Lind Explained

Alfred Lind
Birth Name:	Søren Estrup Alfred Lind
Birth Date:	27 March 1879
Birth Place:	Helsingør, Denmark
Death Date:	29 April 1959 (aged 80)
Death Place:	Copenhagen, Denmark
Othername:	Sören Estrup Alfred Lind
Occupation:	Film Director Cinematographer Screenwriter
Yearsactive:	1906–1929

Søren Estrup Alfred Lind (27 March 1879 – 29 April 1959) was a Danish cinematographer, screenwriter, and film director of the silent era. Lind was a prominent director in early Scandinavian cinema, and also worked in the German film industry. He is believed to have shot the earliest surviving footage of Iceland from 1906.^[1]

Selected filmography

Director

• The White Slave Trade (1910)
• The Masque of Life (1915–1916)
• Alkohol (1919)
• Tragedy at the Royal Circus (1928)
• Girls Do Not Joke (1929)

Cinematographer

• The Abyss (1910)
• Four Devils (1911)
• The Masque of Life (1915–1916)

Bibliography

• Aitken, Ian. The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Routledge, 2011.
• Abel, Richard. Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Taylor & Francis, 2005.
• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

Notes and References

1. Aitken p.390