PIONEER
Alfred Corning ("Al"/"Alf") CLARK
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| birth | 19 Dec 1873, New York |
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| death | 16 June 1950, London |
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| marriage | (1) married on .. July 1900 in London to:
 Florence Beecher CROUSE b. 13 Nov 1878/1879, Syracuse, NY In 1920 was living in Syracuse NY County with her brother Huntington B. Crouse, whose wife was also called Florence B. (Bailey?) Crouse |
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| marriage | (2) married on 21 July 1921 in St George, Hanover Square, London, Middlesex to:
Gertrude Ivy SANDERS b. 19 Dec 1890, Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK |
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PARENTS
| father | Walter L. CLARK b. 25 Oct 1841, New York City, NY |
| mother | Mary T. ....... b. <1854>, New York |
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LIFE
Film (Kinetoscope Company) TTMR No. 43 (Dec 1976)
worked in Edison's laboratory from 1889
Left Edison in 1896 to join Emile Berliner
director of Compagnie Française du Gramophone, Paris (founded May 1899)
was in Paris from 1899 to 1909
resigned on 22 Jan 1908
In Aug 1909 (until 1930) became Managing Director THE GRAMOPHONE COMPANY together with Joint Managing Director Sydney W. DIXON
From 1921 to 1925 Alfred and Gertrude Ivy Clark on passengerlists
retired in Sept. 1946
Photograph in TTMR No. 25, Dec 1973, p. 7
In From Tinfoil to Stereo, pp 139-140
NOTES
- "Favorite: the story of an independent German record company (1904-1914)" by Hugo Strötbaum (in: The Lindström Project. Contributions to the history of the record industry / Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schallplattenindustrie. Vol. 2 (editors: Pekka Gronow & Christiane Hofer). Gesellschaft für Historische Tonträger, Wien 2010. ISBN 978-3-9500502-1-9
- The Talking Machine Review No. 25, Dec 1973, p. 7 (Photograph)
- From Tinfoil to Stereo, pp 139-140
- "Forty Years of the Gramophone" by Alfred Clark, Managing Director of The Gramophone Co. (interview with picture in: The Gramophone of Dec 1929)
- "Editorial" by Compton Mackenzie (in: The Gramophone of Jan 1930)
- "Alfred Clark As a Film Pioneer" (in The Talking Machine Review No. 43 of Dec 1976, pp. 864-865)
- "He Was a Man - Alfred Clark: Dec. 19th, 1873 - June 16th, 1950" (with picture) by F. W. Gaisberg (in: The Gramophone of Aug 1950)
- Patent application of Eldridge R. Johnson and Alfred Corning Clark for "Sound Recording and Reproducing Devices". It was issued on August 7, 1900 as No. 655,556 (Footnote #15 in "The American Graphophone Company and the Columbia Phonograph Company enter the disc record business, 1897-1903" by Raymond R. Wile (in: ARSC Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 1991))
- Susan Conklin = Arthur Clark's great-niece (internet)
- "The Launching of the Gramophone in America 1890-1896" by Raymond R. Wile (in: ARSC Journal Vol. 24, No. 2 of Fall 1993) online article
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