Ernest A. (Ernest Alfred) Dench

Ernest Alfred Dench was an American author and editor best known for writing about motion pictures in the 1910s and early 1920s. The surviving records available online link him with books including Motion Picture Education (1917), Making the Movies (1919), and Advertising by Motion Pictures, showing a strong interest in both the creative and commercial sides of film.

His work focused less on celebrity gossip and more on how the new medium actually functioned—how films were produced, how they could be used in teaching, and how businesses could use them to reach the public. That makes his writing especially interesting today: it captures a time when cinema was still new and its possibilities were being actively debated.

Although detailed biographical information about his personal life is scarce in the sources I could confirm, his published work clearly places him among the early commentators who helped explain the growing motion-picture industry to general readers and professionals alike.