death_place death_date othername birth_date yearsactive imdb_id article_title name occupation
budapest hungary 16 september 1930 -lrb- aged 63 -rrb- gyula antal zágon 1867 1901 - 1918 0958169 béla zsitkovszky
 béla zsitkovszky film director cinematographer
béla zsitkovszky

béla zsitkovszky -lrb- 1867-1930 -rrb- was a hungarian cinematographer and film director .
zsitkovszky was a film pioneer notable for producing the country 's first ever film `` the dance '' -lrb- `` a táncz '' -rrb- in 1901 .
zsitkovszky was a cinema projectionist who was commissioned to make a film .
he shot it entirely on location as budapest lacked a film studio .
in 1903 he opened the first hungarian film laboratory .
