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People and trolley cars move past the Palais des Beaux-Arts.
It was shot by Casimir Sivan (1850-1916). Trained as a clockmaker, he unsurprisingly settled in Switzerland. There he proved to be an inventor, first of clock and watch movements and then in motion pictures. He held an early license for the Edison Kinetograph (movie camera & projector), and the early version of the Kinetophone (Edison's peep-show machine which incorporated a phonograph and ear buds).
In 1896, Sivan and E.Dalphin filmed a patent for a 35-millimeter camera and projector. Sivan shot at lest three movies with this device, and this is one of them. It is a typical Lumiere-style street scene.
Sivan also invented what is described as a "microphonograph" with Francois Dussaud. Dussaud would go on to be a consulting engineer with Gaumont.
It was shot by Casimir Sivan (1850-1916). Trained as a clockmaker, he unsurprisingly settled in Switzerland. There he proved to be an inventor, first of clock and watch movements and then in motion pictures. He held an early license for the Edison Kinetograph (movie camera & projector), and the early version of the Kinetophone (Edison's peep-show machine which incorporated a phonograph and ear buds).
In 1896, Sivan and E.Dalphin filmed a patent for a 35-millimeter camera and projector. Sivan shot at lest three movies with this device, and this is one of them. It is a typical Lumiere-style street scene.
Sivan also invented what is described as a "microphonograph" with Francois Dussaud. Dussaud would go on to be a consulting engineer with Gaumont.
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