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Filmmakers · Turkey (Türkiye)

Fuat Uzkınay and Sigmund Weinberg

Died in 1956

Fuat Uzkınay was born in 1888, in Üsküdar according to the Küre. After the lycée in Istanbul, he studied physics and chemistry at the university, taught, then became a headmaster. He learned to operate the projector from Sigmund Weinberg and campaigned for a cinema run by a Turk, which opened on 19 March 1914. On 14 November of that year, he filmed the demolition of the Russian monument at San Stefano. From 1915 to 1918, he assisted Weinberg in the army's cinematographic service, according to turkeyswar.com. He left the army in 1954 and died in Istanbul on 29 March 1956.

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