Lumière Cinématographe

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The Lumière Cinématographe was an early motion picture camera and projector developed by the Lumière brothers that played a pioneering role in the birth of commercial cinema.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf early cinema technology
film projector
motion picture camera
alsoKnownAs Lumière Cinématographe
surface form: Cinématographe

Lumière Cinématographe
surface form: Cinématographe Lumière
associatedWithFilm La Sortie de l’Usine Lumière à Lyon
L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat
countryOfOrigin France
culturalSignificance symbol of the birth of cinema
designedAs camera
film printer
projector
developedBy Auguste Lumière
Auguste Lumière
surface form: Louis Lumière

Lumière brothers
era silent film era
exhibitedIn Asia
Europe
North Africa
North America
filmFormat 35 mm film
filmTransportMechanism intermittent movement
firstPublicScreeningDate 28 December 1895
firstPublicScreeningPlace Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris
frameRate about 16 frames per second
imageAspect approximately 1.33:1
imageType black-and-white
inception 1895
influenced development of narrative cinema
early film exhibition practices
manufacturer Lumière company
marketedFrom 1895
marketedTo theater owners
traveling exhibitors
notableFor early public film screenings
pioneering role in commercial cinema
operatedBy hand crank
portable true
precededBy Kinetoscope
surface form: Edison Kinetoscope
projectionLightSource arc lamp
projectionType front projection
sound silent
technologyType mechanical
usedFor commercial film exhibition
motion picture projection
motion picture recording
weight approximately 5 kilograms

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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
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Subject: Lumière Cinématographe
Description of subject: The Lumière Cinématographe was an early motion picture camera and projector developed by the Lumière brothers that played a pioneering role in the birth of commercial cinema.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Vitascope competedWith Lumière Cinématographe
Phantoscope relatedTo Lumière Cinématographe
Lumière Cinématographe alsoKnownAs Lumière Cinématographe
this entity surface form: Cinématographe Lumière
Lumière Cinématographe alsoKnownAs Lumière Cinématographe
this entity surface form: Cinématographe
Biograph projector designedToCompeteWith Lumière Cinématographe