# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/burton-holmes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:08:06.282Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/burton-holmes"
name: "Burton Holmes"
slug: "burton-holmes"
description: "Elias Burton Holmes was an American traveler, photographer and filmmaker credited with the invention of the \"travelogue\", though the term itself was apparently coined in 1898 by John Bowker. Travel stories, slide shows, and motion pictures were all in existence before Holmes began his career, as was the profession of travel lecturer; but Holmes was the first person to put all of these elements together into documentary travel lectures. He recorded the earliest known footage of Japan and Korea, in 1899."
tagline: "American traveler and filmmaker (1870–1958), founder of Burton Holmes Films, Inc."
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Burton-Holmes_ca1905.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1870-01-08"
deathDate: "1958-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.608695652173913
  historical:           10.07937466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391764/"
    handle:    "nm0391764"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "الياس بورتون هولمز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Burton Holmes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Holmes"
    title: "Burton Holmes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Holmes"
    title: "Burton Holmes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Burton_Holmes"
    title: "Elias Burton Holmes"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%BC%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4%EC%96%B4%EC%8A%A4_%EB%B2%84%ED%8A%BC_%ED%99%88%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "일라이어스 버튼 홈스"
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    title: "Burton Holmes"
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    title: "Burton Holmes"
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    title: "Холмс, Элиас Бертон"
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    title: "Burton Holmes"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump