Historical Dictionary of French Cinema

It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumi�re in 1895 with the invention of the cin�matographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cin�matographe was the first device capable of recording and externally projecting images in such a way as to convey motion.