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James Sibley Watson (August 10, 1894 - March 31, 1982)

Born in New York, Watson was a Rochester, NY philanthropist and early expermienter in motion pictures.

One of the heirs to the Western Union Telegraph fortune created Hiram Sibley and Don Alonzo Watson, Watson attended Harvard College, where he became friends with(and a lifelong supporter of) poet e.e. cummings.

Watson went on to earn a medical degree. In the late 1920s, Watson became interested in the new art of moving pictures. He produced, directed, and served as cinematographer and art director for two films, The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) (as J.S. Watson Jr.) and Lot in Sodom (1933). Parts of his films were used in the 1992 film, Nitrate Kisses

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