Walter Pfeffer Dando
British stage engineer and film director / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]