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- Birth nameFriedrich Konrad Guido Seeber
- Guido Seeber was born on June 22, 1879 in Chemnitz, Germany. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Laubenkolonie (1930), Alraune und der Golem (1919) and The Student of Prague (1913). He was married to Meta Lina Fritzsche. He died on July 2, 1940 in Berlin, Germany.
- SpouseMeta Lina Fritzsche(1904 - ?)
- Seeber created several animated works, including an advertisement entitle Kipho or Du musst zur Kipho (You Must Go to Kino-Photo) for a film and photography exhibition in Berlin in 1925.
- In addition to his technical talents with the camera (he developed several special effects techniques), his use of perspective and skillful contrasts between light and dark are noteworthy. His main collaborators were the directors Urban Gad, Lupu Pick, Georg Wilhelm Pabst und Paul Wegener and among his most important accomplishments are the shots of the Doppelgänger in Wegener's Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague) of 1913 and the moving camera shots in the films of Lupu Pick, particularly Sylvester (1923), which can be seen as anticipating the so-called "unchained camera" of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924).
- Because his father was a photographer Guido Seeber also chose the profession of a photographer and he learnt his abilities in the studio of his father.
- In 1908 he became technical manager of the film company Deutsche Bioscop.
- In 1909 directed his first film.
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