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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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Lumière Cinématographe

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Regent Street - first cinema in Britain

The Lumières' friend, Felicien Trewey, a French music hall entertainer alread...

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Laurence Cowen

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First cinema in Britain

First cinema in Britain

It was in Regent Street that a film was first played to a paying audience in Britain, whereas King's Hall Picture Palace is thought to have been the first purpose-built cinema in Britain.

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Dame Marie Tempest

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Celia Johnson

Celia Johnson

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W. Sandell

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