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Thomas Edison who invented the kinetoscope and shot the first motion picture had his assistant W.K.L. Dickson direct the wizard of Menlo Park's first films beginning in 1889. Dickson was born in 1860, died in 1935.

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Charles Chaplin began directing his own films in 1919 with "A Day's Pleasure". But he may not have been the first.

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