Albert K. Dawson

Albert Knox Dawson (September 20, 1885 – February 17, 1967) was an American photojournalist and film correspondent who covered World War I with the German, Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian Armies.

His regular news pictures were distributed through his firm Brown & Dawson which specialized in stock photography.

[5] While following the Austro-Hungarian army at the Eastern Front in the summer of 1915, Dawson produced this motion picture report on the Russian trench system that has partly been retrieved by the authors at the nitrate film vaults of the Library of Congress.

[6] During his stay in Berlin, Dawson made still and moving pictures of Roger Casement, the famous Irish nationalist who at the time was involved in raising a revolt in Ireland against the British.

[7] Dawson's film work during World War I featured in the documentary Mobilizing Movies!

Footage shot by Albert K. Dawson on the eastern front, 1915