Iwan Serrurier (21 September 1878 in

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– 1953) was a

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-born electrical engineer notable for inventing the

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Career

Iwan was the son of Lindor Serrurier, director of the

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, and Martina Lindo. In June 1903, Serrurier married Catharina Damme in

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/ref> soon after which they moved to the US and settled in Pasadena, California. Here their son

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was born in May 1904. Serrurier sold real estate and worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad as a draftsman. Around 1917 Serrurier developed a home movie projector, which he called the "Moviola" since it was a similar concept to a

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. The device was hard to sell to home users since it cost $600 in 1920, a very large sum. An editor at Douglas Fairbanks Studios suggested that Serrurier should adapt the device for use by film editors; he did this and the Moviola as an editing device was born in 1924. In 1946 Iwan Serrurier's son

Mark Serrurier Mark Serrurier (12 May 1904 in Pasadena, California – 14 February 1988) is the son of Dutch-born electrical engineer, Iwan Serrurier, who created the Moviola in 1924 which became the technology used for film editing. Mark was a graduate of C ...

took over as president of Moviola Co., Iwan's company. In 1979 Mark was awarded a special Academy Award for Technical Achievement for himself and Iwan Serrurier for their special contribution to movie editing.

References

Moviola.com – What is the Moviola story?

External links

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