Film projector

Manufacturer	Ambroise François Parnaland
Name	Le Cinépar
Place	France
Date	circa 1898
Register	804

This was a rare projector patented by the mechanic Ambroise-François Parnaland for 35 mm films with Lumière perforation. Previously, in 1896, he had patented a chronophotographic device called a photothéagraphe, without much success. The following year he patented the Le Cinépar camera and projector, marketed in France and Great Britain. These devices had a unique film drag mechanism, by means of retractable claws with a spring, mounted on a ramp, which made a simple back and forth movement, thanks to a rod attached to an eccentric wheel. Parnaland also marketed films (he came to have a catalogue with about five hundred titles) and was the founder of the Eclair company in 1907.

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