Cinematograph (cinema)
Cinematógrafo (cine)
- Date
- 1895 · confidence high
- Place
- Lyon, France (public screening at the Salon Indien, Paris, 28-12-1895)
- Credited to
- Auguste and Louis Lumière (Lyon); Thomas Edison and W. K. L. Dickson (kinetoscope, 1891); Louis Le Prince (Leeds, 1888); the Skladanowsky brothers (Berlin, 1895)
- People
- 👤 Auguste Lumière1862–1954👤 Louis Lumière1864–1948
- Field
- Communication
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
Camera, printer and projector in a single lightweight device that projected moving images before an audience. It created the cinema show.
Le Prince filmed in 1888 and disappeared in 1890; the Skladanowsky brothers projected in Berlin on 1-11-1895, before the Lumières; Edison's kinetoscope was for individual viewing.
What it led to
- Film industry and Hollywood
- First global visual mass culture
- Newsreel, propaganda and documentary
Built on
- Magic lantern1659
- Photographic magic lantern (hyalotype) with limelight1849-1860
- Kodak camera1888
- Celluloid roll film1887–1889
- Kinetoscope1891
- Animation (Reynaud's Théâtre Optique)1892 (patentado en 1888)
- Celluloid roll film
- Chronophotography by Marey and Muybridge
- Kinetoscope