- 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.
- Guido Seeber also averted impressive pictures on the big screen in the second half of the 10s, among them "Engeleins Hochzeit" (1916) and"Der fliegende Holländer" (1918).
- With the rise of the sound film the great time of Guido Seeber came to an end. He only was engaged for feature movies occasionally. Beside it he was also the cinematographer of short movies and documentaries. This is also explained by his poor health at that time.
- When the invention of the film was presented in Germany in 1896 too both senior and junior Seeber became fascinated by this new medium and they began to shoot their own movies. Normally they filmed actual events in and around Chemnitz, among them the self-explanatory titles "König Albert von Sachsen wird in Chemnitz empfangen" (1898), "König Georg von Sachsen in Chemnitz am 10.9.1902" (1902), and "Die Flugmaschine der Brüder Orville und Wilbur Wright - Ihre Demonstraton auf dem Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin" (1909). Those works were presented to the audience via a travelling cinema.
- Guido Seeber shot first movies with stories which were forerunners of the later feature movies. To these works belong "Schuld und Sühne" (1910), "Gräfin Ankarström" (1910) and "Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern" (1910).
- His pioneering work as a cinematographer from this time on laid the foundations which other cameramen of German silent film such as Karl Freund, Fritz Arno Wagner and Carl Hoffmann were able to build.
- Guido Seeber took part again in numerous movies of the 20s. Many of these productions belong to the more important movies of the German silent film.
- The cinematographer Guido Seeber belonged to the film pioneers from the start and he became an important cinematographer of the German silent movie era.
- He had suffered a stroke in 1932 and after this he largely retired from active camera operation. However, he continued to be involved in the film industry, taking over the management of UFA's animation department in 1935 and publishing several books for amateur filmmakers.
- Guido Seeber became a cinematographer of numerous feature movies and he became established as one of the first and most important cinematographer of the German cinema. Most of these early movies of Guido Seeber were directed by Urban Gad and the leading role were played by the legendary Asta Nielsen which laid the foundation of her impressive career.
- In the summer of 1896, he saw the first films of the Lumière Brothers and became fascinated by this new technology. He bought a film camera and devoted himself to the development of cinematography and of sound films.
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