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WHILE the credit of inventing cinematography rightly goes to W. Friese Green, whose patent, obtained in 1889, covered the production of a perfect sequence of photographic images on a band of celluloid film taken by one camera with one lens and from one point of view, it remained to the brothers Lumiere to invent the cineniatographe and to show moving pictures to the public. In December 1895, Louis Lumiere gave his first exhibition in Paris (see NATURE, Nov. 16, 1935, p. 803) and the new invention was introduced to British audiences through the enterprise of the Polytechnic in Regent Street on February 20, 1896. Figures given by Mr. Simon Rowson at a recent meeting of the Royal Statistical Society show how important is the position now held by the cinema in the social life of the country. In 1934, 957,000,000 people in the United Kingdom paid £40,950,000 to see moving pictures.
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The Lumière Celebration in London. Nature 137, 352–353 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137352c0
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