October 14, 2011

Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) native Freeman Harrison Owens, a pioneer cinematographer and inventor of cinematic technology, made this moving-picture camera over a period from 1908 to 1909. Over his lifetime, Owens developed 11,812 inventions and obtained 200 patents.

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