Paul Davidson (producer)

Paul Davidson was a German film producer.

Paul Davidson was born in Ltzen, East Prussia the son of Moritz Davidson. He initially worked as a commercial traveller in the textile industry and became the manager of a security firm in Frankfurt am Main in 1902. On vacation to Paris he saw his first movie, a Georges Mlis film, in a cinema. Back in Frankfurt he founded the Allgemeine KinematographenTheater Gesellschaft, UnionTheater fr lebende und Tonbilder GmbH onMarch 1906 and opened Mannheims first permanent cinema, the UnionTheater . Further cinemas followed in Frankfurt, Dsseldorf, Cologne, Strasbourg, Amsterdam and Brussels.

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