The individual viewer had to watch through a peephole Antoine wondered if it were possible to develop a device that could project film onto a screen for an audience. However, the Kinetoscope could show a motion picture to only one person at a time. In 1894 Antoine attended a Paris exhibition of Thomas Edison and William Dickson’s Kinetoscope, a film-viewing device often referred to as the first movie projector. (See also: These beautiful antique photos were made with potato starch.) Pioneers in motion By the mid1890s the Lumière family was running Europe’s largest photographic factory. Louis improved upon the dry plate technology, and his success with what became known as the “blue plate” prompted the opening of a new factory on the outskirts of Lyon. Unlike previous “wet” photo graphic plates, these did not need to be developed immediately, freeing the photographer to travel farther from his darkroom. The first screening had only attracted 30 people, but after word spread of the incredible experience, thousands wanted to see the moving pictures in early January 1896.Ĭhemists had already introduced a new type of “dry” photographic plate that was coated with a chemical emulsion. After their initial screening in December 1895, the Lumières contracted lithographer Henri Brispot to create a poster to promote future demonstrations of the Lumière Cinématographe.
In the Paris of the belle epoque, posters were the best form of advertisement. The Lumières not only invented the very first night at the movies, they also pioneered the use of the movie poster.
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