Walter Pfeffer Dando

Walter Pfeffer Dando
Born1852
London[1]
Died1944

Walter Pfeffer Dando (1852–1944, some sources 1854)[2] was a British stage engineer and early film director. Among his developments and patents were those for a device allowing theatre actors to "fly" about the stage (by 1875) and improvements to the technology for tableaux vivants.[3] Dando also served as an official photographer to the Zoological Society of London.[1]

Dando was the stage manager of the Palace Theatre (1891–1896) before leaving to establish his own business screening "phantom rides", first-person travel footage from trains.[4]

  1. ^ a b The Green Room Book. 1906. p. 95.
  2. ^ Linda Fitzsimmons (2000). Moving performance: British stage and screen, 1890s–1920s. Flicks Books. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-948911-54-5.
  3. ^ Donohue
  4. ^ Richard Brown; Barry Anthony (October 1999). A Victorian film enterprise: the history of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1897-1915. Flicks Books. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-948911-27-9.