Film camera-projector

Manufacturer	Jules Carpentier
Name	Cinématographe Lumière
Place	Paris (France)
Date	1896
Register	00837

Patented on 13 February 1895 by August and Louis Lumière as Cinématographe Lumière, this device, with the appropriate accessories, recorded moving images on a 35 mm celluloid film, made positive copies of the film and projected them onto the screen at sixteen images per second. The whole mechanism was enclosed in a walnut box. The front housed the lens and the rear crank that operated the film's intermittent drag system. This intermittent drag was carried out using an eccentric wheel and claw system that penetrated the film perforations. Manufactured by Jules Carpentier, the cinematographer followed the layout of the two prototypes built by Charles Moisson (technician of the family business of the Lumières). From October 1895, a first series of twenty-five cameras was manufactured; and it was followed, in early 1896, by two more production runs of two hundred each. Initially, the operation of the cinematograph was entrusted to dealers and operators to whom the Lumière house ceded the equipment for filming and projections. It was not until May 1, 1897, that the cinematograph was finally launched on the market.

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