Cinematograph  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search
 This page Cinematograph is part of the film series.  Illustration: screen shot from L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat
Enlarge
This page Cinematograph is part of the film series.
Illustration: screen shot from L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

The cinematograph is a film camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer. It was invented in the 1890s.

There is much dispute as to the identity of its inventor. Some argue that the device was first invented and patented as "Cinématographe Léon Bouly" by French inventor Léon Bouly in February 12, 1892. It is said that, due to a lack of fee, Bouly was not able to pay the rent for his patent the following year, and Auguste and Louis Lumière's engineers bought the license.

Popular thought, however, dictates that Louis Lumière was the first to conceptualise the idea, and both Lumière brothers shared the patent. They made their first film, Sortie de l'usine Lumière de Lyon, in 1894. The film was publicly screened at L'Eden, the world's first and oldest cinéma, located in La Ciotat in southeastern France, on September 28, 1895. The first commercial, public screening of cinematographic films happened in Paris on 28 December 1895 and was organised by the Lumière brothers.

See also




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Cinematograph" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools