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Cinema and Projection Technology

The capture, sound and projection technology of theatrical film, from the earliest motion-picture cameras through digital cinema. Belongs here: named cinema technologies such as the Cinematographe, Kinetoscope, CinemaScope, IMAX, Technicolor, sound on film, the Steadicam and digital cinema systems. Does not belong here: home-viewing formats, grouped under home video technology, or general still photography equipment, grouped under photography and photojournalism technology.

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Era of Emergence
1895 1
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Movie projector, History section
Quote, Wikipedia: Movie projector, History section
In late 1895 in Paris, father Antoine Lumiere began exhibitions of projected films before the paying public, beginning the general conversion of the medium to projection.
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