THE KAISER AND THE MAN WITH THE CAMERA: OSKAR MESSTER FILMS WILHELM ZWO
Today in Berlin: May 4, 1897
On this day in 1897 in Stettin (now Szczecin in Poland) a Berlin filmmaker, inventor and, for many, the legitimate father of German cinema industry, Oskar Messter, became the first person ever to have captured Kaiser Wilhelm II on film. It would be the beginning of a beautiful friendship…
