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Hannibal Goodwin was born on 21 April, 1822

American Episcopal priest who invented and patented the celluloid photographic film. The transparent, flexible roll had nitrocellulose film base and was used in Thomas Alva Edison’s Kinetoscope.
Celluloid itself was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.