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5/3/1896: Raoul Grimoin-Sanson
In 1895, Raoul Grimoin-Sanson, a French inventor with an interest in moving pictures, purchased one of Robert Paul’s knock-off Kinetoscopes, with the idea of projecting the films onto a screen. In February 1896 he demonstrated his combined camera and projector, the wonderfully-named Phototachygraphe to a journalist from L’Intransigent, and patented the machine on the 5th of March of the same year. Nothing ever became of the Phototachygraphe in its original form, but Grimoin-Sanson did go on to develop an improved version which he named the Multiplex. [ADD]
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