- In 1912, Harry Norton's son, Daniel, died during the sinking of the Titanic during his honeymoon with his new model wife Mary Farquerson Marvin. This story is being developed into a documentary DVD RMS Titanic: The Story Biograph Told (2012) by the original American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. in which Harry Marvin was a founder. The company is still in existence today.
- On Demeber 21st 1895, was a founder of the American Mutoscope Company, later to become American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., popularly known as "American Biograph" or just "Biograph." Over the next two decades, many of the biggest names of the silent screen would get their first movie jobs at Biograph, including D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, Blanche Sweet, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, and Florence Lawrence. The company is now in existence today and is the oldest movie company in America, and continues to perpetuate the history and dreams of William K.L. Dickson and its other founders.
- Was the younger brother of Arthur Marvin, a chief cinematographer for Biograph until his death in 1911.
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