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Joly Cinematograph, large model
In this device, operating for shooting and projection, the film is drawn over a height of 5 perforations instead of 4, which gives a square image format.
Manufactured in the workshops of Louis Doignon, the Joly Cinematograph is marketed by the Normandin brothers under the name Royal Biograph.

Silent film devices in France, 1895 - 1930
The presentation of the Lumière Cinematograph in 1895 marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the animated image.
What could have been just another scientific curiosity, heir to Marey's chronophotography, became in a few weeks a real attraction, a light magic show whose fame is based entirely on the name of a device.
From then on, the race for equipment began and we saw machines blooming everywhere with mechanisms that were sometimes ingenious, sometimes extravagant, whose names ending in "graphe" or "scope" were then much more important than the content of the films they allowed to project.
Because before being an Art, cinema was a matter of technique, which attracted men from different backgrounds to its ranks: scientists, industrialists, traders or businessmen.
For over 30 years, the mechanisms continued to improve and diversify, now addressing both large-scale exploitation and teaching, salons and amateurs, until the arrival of talking pictures suddenly made many of these machines obsolete.

CINEMATOGRAPHES proposes to establish an overview of the devices that have marked the history of silent cinema in France through period documents: catalogs, notices, patents, corporate magazines, etc.
A few notes on the machines and their authors will attempt to complete this information.

Source http://cinematographes.free.fr/joly.html collection Eric Lange

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