Alfred Lind

Alfred Lind
Born	Søren Estrup Alfred Lind 27 March 1879 Helsingør, Denmark
Died	29 April 1959 (aged 80) Copenhagen, Denmark
Other names	Sören Estrup Alfred Lind
Occupation(s)	Film Director Cinematographer Screenwriter
Years active	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)

References

^ Aitken p.390

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.