The Lumiègre Cinematograph

A historical account of the development of the cinematograph camera and projector. Work on the apparatus was begun in 1894, and a private demonstration given in March, 1895, at Paris. The first public showing at which admission was charged took place in the Grand Café on the Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, on December 28, 1895. Motion pictures were also projected upon a screen approximately 80 × 100 feet in the Galerie des Machines at the Paris Exposition grounds in 1898, using a projection distance of more than 600 feet. The paper contains an illustrated description of the apparatus.

Print ISSN

0097-5834

Published

1936-12

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J08599