Media From 1894

Lumière Cinématographe

Categories: Cinema

Countries: France

The Lumière Cinématographe was a machine for projecting moving pictures, invented in France by Antoine Lumière and his sons, Louis and Auguste.

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Lumière Cinématographe

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Regent Street - first cinema in Britain

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