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Gordon Hendricks (1917–1980) was an American art and film historian. In 1961 Hendricks published the The Edison motion picture myth in which he showed that it was not Thomas Alva Edison who should be attributed with the invention of the first device for cinema screeningss but in fact William Kennedy Laurie Dickson. In 1975 he authored a work republished in 2001 about Eadweard Muybridge in which he called Muybridge the father of the cinema.