Technologies

Cinematographe

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Cinema

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Film and Media Atlas. "Cinematographe." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://media.interactiveatlas.org/technologies/cinematographe.

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Film and Media Atlas. (n.d.). Cinematographe. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://media.interactiveatlas.org/technologies/cinematographe

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@misc{filmandmediaatlas-cinematographe,
  author = {Film and Media Atlas},
  title = {Cinematographe},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://media.interactiveatlas.org/technologies/cinematographe},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The Lumiere brothers' hand-cranked machine of 1895, camera, contact printer and projector in one portable wooden box. Where the Kinetoscope showed films to one viewer at a time, the Cinematographe threw them onto a screen for a paying audience, which is the form cinema kept.

Facts

Introduced Year

1895 1

Origin

Patented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere, Lyon, 1895; first paid public screening 28 December 1895 in Paris. 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Developed By

Auguste and Louis Lumiere

Source A History of Narrative FilmDavid A. Cook

In Medium

Film

Source A History of Narrative FilmDavid A. Cook

Sources

1. A History of Narrative Film

David A. Cook, W. W. Norton, 2016

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