Max Skladanowsky
Birth : 1863-04-30, Germany
Death : 1939-11-30
History
Max Skladanowsky was a German inventor and early filmmaker. Along with his brother Emil, he invented the Bioscop, an early movie projector the Skladanowsky brothers used to display the first moving picture show to a paying audience on 1 November 1895, shortly before the public debut of the Lumière Brothers' Cinématographe in Paris on 28 December 1895.
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This is the first film ever filmed in Stockholm, Sweden. The part of the city featured is Djurgården (Tiergarten in German). It is where the unique outdoor museum Skansen is located.
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Police parade in Germany.
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Police parade in Germany.
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Fire brigade response to an alarm in Berlin.
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Fire brigade response to an alarm in Berlin.
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Fire brigade turnout in Berlin.
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Fire brigade turnout in Berlin.
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Police detachment in Germany.
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Police detachment in Germany.
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Arrival of a railway train.
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Arrival of a railway train.
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Street scene in Berlin.
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Street scene in Berlin.
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Street scene in Berlin.
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Street scene in Berlin.
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Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.
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The two inventors of the Bioskop, a sort of magic lantern that projected images so fast as to give the illusion of movement, bow to the camera at both sides of an empty screen. The scene was shown in continuity, at the end of the session, as if the producers and directors of the session were beading the public a farewell.
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On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s Wintergarten Theater. With live musical accompaniment, the compilation program included short film sequences with famous artists of the time: Italienischer Bauerntanz, Komisches Reck, Der Jongleur, Das boxende Känguruh, Kamarinskaja, Die Serpentintänzerin, Akrobatisches Potpourri, Ringkampf, and Apotheose, with the Skladanowsky brothers bowing to their audience.
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A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
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A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.
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The two inventors of the Bioskop, a sort of magic lantern that projected images so fast as to give the illusion of movement, bow to the camera at both sides of an empty screen. The scene was shown in continuity, at the end of the session, as if the producers and directors of the session were beading the public a farewell.
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Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
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Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.
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A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.
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Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.
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Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
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On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s Wintergarten Theater. With live musical accompaniment, the compilation program included short film sequences with famous artists of the time: Italienischer Bauerntanz, Komisches Reck, Der Jongleur, Das boxende Känguruh, Kamarinskaja, Die Serpentintänzerin, Akrobatisches Potpourri, Ringkampf, and Apotheose, with the Skladanowsky brothers bowing to their audience.
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On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s Wintergarten Theater. With live musical accompaniment, the compilation program included short film sequences with famous artists of the time: Italienischer Bauerntanz, Komisches Reck, Der Jongleur, Das boxende Känguruh, Kamarinskaja, Die Serpentintänzerin, Akrobatisches Potpourri, Ringkampf, and Apotheose, with the Skladanowsky brothers bowing to their audience.
