Iwan Serrurier

Iwan Serrurier (September 21, 1878 – 1953) was a Dutch-American electrical engineer notable for inventing the Moviola.Iwan was born in Leiden, Netherlands to Lindor Serrurier, director of the city's ethnographic museum, and Martina Lindo.[2] Soon after, they moved to the United States and settled in Pasadena, California, where their son Mark was born in May 1904.Serrurier sold real estate and worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad as a draftsman.[3] In 1979, Mark Serrurier accepted an Academy Award for Technical Achievement on his and his father's behalf for their contribution to movie editing.
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