The cinematograph or Lumiére Cinématographe was an early type film projector, an all-in-one camera, projector and developer, circa 1895. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A camera is a device used to take pictures (usually photographs), either singly or in sequence, with or without sound, such as with video cameras. ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Several versions of cinematographs were developed including ones by Robert Royou Beard, Cecil Wray, Georges Demenÿ, and Alfred Wrench, culminating with the Cinématographe of Louis Lumière. [1]. The Lumière Brothers, Louis Jean (October 5, 1864–June 6, 1948) and Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas (October 19, 1862–April 10, 1954), were the creators of the cinematographic projector. ...

Discussion of the early film history is riddled with references to "the invention of the Cinematograph" which is often found attributed to the Lumières -- pioneers of publicity and show business as well as film and technology. Although the all-in-one Lumière Cinématographe was a remarkable development in the history of cinema, it was concurrently designed and engineered by many competing inventors, all wishing to lay claim to the "first." Origins of motion picture arts and sciences Any overview of the history of cinema would be remiss to fail to at least mention a long history of literature, storytelling, narrative drama, art, mythology, puppetry, shadow play, cave paintings and perhaps even dreams. ... Publicity is one of the variables that comprise the promotional mix. ... Show business is a vernacular term for the business of entertainment. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Origins of motion picture arts and sciences Any overview of the history of cinema would be remiss to fail to at least mention a long history of literature, storytelling, narrative drama, art, mythology, puppetry, shadow play, cave paintings and perhaps even dreams. ...

See also

• Biograph
• Electrotachyscope
• Kinetoscope
• Panoptikon
• Praxinoscope
• Vitascope
• Zoopraxiscope 1879

Biograph may refer to: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, a silent movie era production company widely known as Biograph or Biograph Studios. ... The electrotachyscope is an 1887 invention of Ottomar Anschütz of Germany which presents the illusion of motion with transparent serial photographs, chronophotographs, arranged on a spinning wheel of fortune or mandala-like glass disc, significant as a technological development in the history of cinema. ... Kinetoscope with open door, film loop, and top viewing window open The Kinetoscope was a forerunner of the modern movie projector developed by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson during his employment with Thomas Edison. ... The Praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. ... in 1895 Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat publicly demonstrated an image projection device at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia that they called the Phantoscope. ... Muybridges The Horse in Motion. ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

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Who's Who in Victorian Cinema:Technical Essay