- Enoch J. Rector was an American boxing film promoter and early cinema technician. He was born near Parkersburg, West Virginia and attended West Virginia University. He was a partner in Woodville Latham's Kinetoscope Exhibition Company (later the Lambda Company) during the mid-1890s, working with Latham and his sons Otway and Grey, as well as fellow cinema technicians William K.L. Dickson and Eugène Lauste. Cinema historian Terry Ramsaye claimed that Rector, during his association with Latham, invented the 'Latham loop', a key feature of modern cinema cameras and projectors, in 1895. However, in 1927, Dickson stated unequivocally that Lauste was responsible for this important invention. Using this technique, Rector created the 90-minute documentary film The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897), filmed in an early widescreen process on 63 mm film with an aspect ratio of about 1.75:1.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Daniel R.
- SpouseJessie Leach(May 2, 1895 - ?) (1 child)
- ChildrenAnne Elizabeth Rector
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