Headline
The China Mail News 1897-04-27
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1897-04-27
- Publication Year
1897
Page
2
Column
Local and General
Key Person
Film Projector / Film(s)
Summary
Last night, Professor Charver gave a luminary exhibition of the latest invention in phantasmagoria in St. Andrew's Hall to a select party of press representatives and other gentlemen. There is a description of the screening of Cinematograph: a long strip of photographic film is wound from one cylinder to the other, the photographs passing the lenses, at a rate of fifty per second. The photographs are projected on a screen by a very powerful electric lamp. The pictures included a march of French cavalry over a bridge and the Czar's entrance into Paris. The exhibition opened today, and more details will be in the newspaper's advertisement columns.
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