Nelson Elisha Edwards (1887-1954) was one of the first newsreel cameraman in American film history. From 1914 he filmed for Hearst’s International News Service. Edwards filmed the Turkish and German side of World War I. Nelson Edwards died near Reisterstown, Maryland, on October 17, 1954 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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| - Nelson Elisha Edwards (1887-1954) was one of the first newsreel cameraman in American film history. From 1914 he filmed for Hearst’s International News Service. Edwards filmed the Turkish and German side of World War I. Nelson Edwards died near Reisterstown, Maryland, on October 17, 1954 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. (en)
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| - Nelson Edwards filming Franz von Hipper, 1916. (en)
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| - Nelson Elisha Edwards (1887-1954) was one of the first newsreel cameraman in American film history. From 1914 he filmed for Hearst’s International News Service. Edwards filmed the Turkish and German side of World War I. Nelson Elisha Edwards was born in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, on November 25, 1887. The Edwards family moved to Kansas by covered wagon when Nelson was only six months old. Nelson left the family farm in 1908 to learn photography in Kansas City. From New Orleans he moved to New York City where in 1912 he was working as a press photographer for the Hearst newspapers. His first major film assignment was in 1914 when Edwards covered the Mexican war. In December 1915, he sailed with Henry Ford’s Peace Ship to Europe and filmed inside the Ottoman Empire and on the Western Front with the German army. While in Germany, Edwards covered the aftermath of the Battle of Jutland and filmed the German Navy in Wilhemshaven as well as the German Naval High Command. On his return to America, Edwards joined the army in December 1917. He was chief cameraman for Fox News in 1919 and had his own photographic agency in Baltimore from 1923, combining freelance photography with newsreel work. Edwards covered the early transatlantic flights, as well as Charles Lindbergh’s return from Paris in 1935. He was a member of the White House Press Photographers Association and covered every inauguration from President Theodore Roosevelt to Harry Truman. Nelson Edwards died near Reisterstown, Maryland, on October 17, 1954 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. (en)
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