Bioscop
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The Bioscop was a movie projector developed in 1895 by the brothers Emil and Max Skladanowsky
in Berlin-Pankow
. The Bioscop used two loops of 54-mm films without a side perforation.
This caused poor control of the film-transport through the projector and might have contributed to the more successful development of the cinematograph by the french brothers Lumiere.
The first public performance of the of movie scenes using the Bioscop was organized in the restaurant „Feldschlößchen“ in Berlin-Pankow, Berliner Straße 27. Three of the scenes became iconic for early cinematography, "The boxing Kangoroo", "The Wrestler" and "The Serpentine Dance". They were all shot earlier in the garden of the same restaurant. The ballroom of the "Felschlößchen" restaurant was later converted into the first permanent cinema in Germany and served the audience under the name "Tivoli" until it was closed in 1994 and demolished to make space for a discount supermarket.
The Skladanovsky brothers later used the Bioscop to show movies to a larger audience in the Berlin Variete theater "Wintergarden"
. This can be considered the first movie program to a paid audience.
In 1896, they traveled through the Netherlands and Skandinavia, presenting their invitation to the international audience. In Sweden the term Bio (short for Biograph) is still synonymus for Cinema.
Max Skladanowsky
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 November 1, 1895, some two months before the public debut of...
in Berlin-Pankow
Pankow
Pankow is the third borough of Berlin. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was merged with the former boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee; the resulting borough retained the name Pankow.- Overview :...
. The Bioscop used two loops of 54-mm films without a side perforation.
This caused poor control of the film-transport through the projector and might have contributed to the more successful development of the cinematograph by the french brothers Lumiere.
The first public performance of the of movie scenes using the Bioscop was organized in the restaurant „Feldschlößchen“ in Berlin-Pankow, Berliner Straße 27. Three of the scenes became iconic for early cinematography, "The boxing Kangoroo", "The Wrestler" and "The Serpentine Dance". They were all shot earlier in the garden of the same restaurant. The ballroom of the "Felschlößchen" restaurant was later converted into the first permanent cinema in Germany and served the audience under the name "Tivoli" until it was closed in 1994 and demolished to make space for a discount supermarket.
The Skladanovsky brothers later used the Bioscop to show movies to a larger audience in the Berlin Variete theater "Wintergarden"
Berlin Wintergarten theatre
The Berlin Wintergarten theatre was a large variety theatre in Berlin that opened in approximately 1887 and was destroyed by bombs in June 1944. The name was eventually taken on by a theatre in Potsdamer Strasse in 1992....
. This can be considered the first movie program to a paid audience.
In 1896, they traveled through the Netherlands and Skandinavia, presenting their invitation to the international audience. In Sweden the term Bio (short for Biograph) is still synonymus for Cinema.