Round 6: Tossup 18

In the 1970s, Al Dettlaff dressed up as “Father Time” to show a movie produced by this filmmaker, but refused to sell its print to AMPAS, even after Robert Wise let him pose with his Oscar. A short by this filmmaker titles Josef von Sternberg’s autobiography, Fun in a Chinese Laundry. This filmmaker’s studio was nicknamed “Black Maria” for resembling cop vans. Flaubert (“flo-BAIR”), Beethoven, and this filmmaker are Walter Murch’s three “Fathers of Film.” This filmmaker, who produced a movie that uses a trick shot to depict a queen’s (*) execution, shot footage of an author walking at Stormfield mansion in Redding, Connecticut. William Dickson’s kinetoscope was financed by this filmmaker, (10[1])whose company produced The Kiss, Fred Ott’s Sneeze, (10[1])the first film of Frankenstein, and The Great Train Robbery. This producer wasn’t present when one of his crews filmed the murder of Topsy, an elephant. For 10 points, what filmmaker is credited with inventing the lightbulb? ■END■

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