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animatograph

movie technology

Also known as: theatrograph

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history of motion pictures

In history of film: Edison and the Lumière brothers
…projector, the theatrograph (later the animatograph), had been demonstrated in 1896 by the scientific-instrument maker Robert W. Paul. In 1899 Paul formed his own production company for the manufacture of actualities and trick films, and until 1905 Paul’s Animatograph Works, Ltd., was England’s largest producer, turning out an average of…
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