News from the John W. Kluge Center: TODAY at 4pm - Claudy Op den Kamp on her significant discovery in film history

Join the John W. Kluge Center for an interview with Claudy Op den Kamp, Principal Academic in Film at Bournemouth University, UK, on a significant discovery in film history that she made while in residence at the Library of Congress.

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While researching the earliest history of cinema and intellectual property as a Kluge Fellow in 2022, Op den Kamp discovered the identity of the first motion picture copyright registration ever made, in 1893 by Thomas Edison’s head photographer William Dickson.

On April 19, at 4pm in the Whittall Pavillion in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Op den Kamp will return to the Library of Congress for an interview with the Kluge Center’s Andrew Breiner on her discovery, how she accomplished it, and the importance of Librarian of Congress Ainsworth Rand Spofford and the surviving copyright records in retelling the beginnings of cinema.

View this event virtually on Zoom or in person at the Library of Congress.