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Emil Skladanowsky was born on 30 April, 1863 in Pankow, Berlin, Germany, is a German inventor and early filmmaker. Discover Emil Skladanowsky's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Occupation director
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 30 April 1863
Birthday 30 April
Birthplace Pankow, Berlin, Germany
Date of death 30 November, 1939
Died Place Berlin, Germany
Nationality Germany

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1830

Born as the fourth child of glazier Carl Theodor Skladanowsky (1830–1897) and Luise Auguste Ernestine Skladanowsky, Max Skladanowsky was apprenticed as a photographer and glass painter, which led to an interest in magic lanterns.

1863

Max Skladanowsky (30 April 1863 – 30 November 1939) was a German inventor and early filmmaker.

1879

In 1879, he began to tour Germany and Central Europe with his father Carl and elder brother Emil, giving dissolving magic lantern shows.

While Emil mostly took care of promotion, Max was mostly involved with the technology and for instance developed special multi-lens devices that allowed simultaneous projection of up to nine separate image sequences.

Carl retired from this show business, but Max and Emil continued and added other attractions, including a type of naumachia that involved electro-mechanical effects and pyrotechnics.

1892

Max would later claim to have constructed their first film camera on 20 August 1892, but this more likely happened in the summer or autumn of 1894.

He also single-handedly constructed the Bioskop projector.

Partially based on the dissolving view lantern, it featured two lenses and two separate film reels, one frame being projected alternately from each.

It was hand-cranked to transport 44.5mm-wide unperforated Eastman-Kodak film-stock, which was carefully cut, perforated and re-assembled by hand and coated with an emulsion developed by Max.

The projector was placed behind a screen, which was made properly transparent by keeping it wet to show the images optimally.

1895

Along with his brother Emil, he invented the Bioscop, an early movie projector the Skladanowsky brothers used to display a moving picture show to a paying audience on 1 November 1895, shortly before the public debut of the Lumière Brothers' Cinématographe in Paris on 28 December 1895.

The Skladanowsky brothers shot several films in May 1895.

Their first film recorded Emil performing overstated movements on a rooftop with a panorama of Berlin in the background.

This was an experimental test, not to be used in their commercial screenings.

Their further choice of subjects seemed influenced by the films they probably viewed in the Kinetoscope that was installed in Berlin in March.

They filmed various variety acts who were performing in town and had them perform in the gardens of theatres in full sunlight, against a neutral background (usually white, sometimes black).

Test screenings were held at the Gasthaus Sello in July 1895, attended by some invited friends and colleagues.

The directors of the Wintergarten music hall were impressed enough after seeing a screening of the Bioskop to eventually sign the Skladanowsky brothers in September for the substantial fee of 2500 Goldmark.

The Skladanowsky brothers would first stage a naumachia show at the Wintergarten, re-enacting an Alexandrian sea battle, in October.

From 1 November 1895 until the end of the month they would provide a motion picture show, which was eventually screened 23 times.

Their circa 15-minutes picture show was part of an evening program that lasted over three hours, which further included all kinds of variety acts, such as Mr. Thompson and his three trained elephants.

In an advertisement for the program, the Bioskop appeared right at the center in an extra bold typeface with the statement "New! The most interesting invention of the modern age".

The Skladanowskys showed eight films, varying in length from 99 to 174 frames (circa 6 to 11 seconds if played at 16 fps), looped repeatedly, while a specially composed score was played especially loud to drown out the noise of the machinery.

The "Apotheose" film showed the brothers entering the frame from opposite sites in front of a white background, bowing towards the camera as if receiving applause and walking out of the frame again.

When their show was finished they replicated the action in person in front of the projection screen.

The popular venue was filled to capacity with circa 1500 rich patrons for each evening program, but not all of them watched the films.

Reviews favoured the three elephants, but the Bioskop was reportedly well-received with extensive applause and flowers thrown at the screen.

However, the Berlin papers were seldom critical about shows due to the revenue of the theatre advertisements they placed.

After finishing the Wintergarten run of shows, the Bioskop opened in the Hamburg Concerthaus on 21 December 1895 as a single program, without any other acts.

Max had constructed a new camera with a Geneva drive in the autumn of 1895, and the new single-lens Bioskop-II projector in the summer of 1896.

1896

On the 27th they traveled to Paris, engaged to play the Folies Bergère from 1 January 1896.

A planned appearance at the London Empire Theatre was also cancelled, but they were able to further tour Kothen, Halle and Magdeburg in central Germany in March 1896; Kristiana (now Oslo), Norway from 6 April to 5 May; Groningen from 14 to 24 May and Amsterdam from 21 May, the Netherlands; Copenhagen, Denmark from 11 June to 30 July; and Stockholm, Sweden from 3 August until September 1896.

They also recorded new films (on 63mm-wide celluloid), much needed since the old ones started to get damaged, including the fiction film Komische Begegnung im Tiergarten zu Stockholm (Comical Encounter in Djurgården, Stockholm) in August 1896 with professional actors from the Victoria Theatre company.

It was the first film recorded in Sweden.

1897

They returned to Berlin in February 1897, and shot several crowded urban street scenes.

The new films were thought to meet the taste of new audiences and were much needed since the older films started to wear out.

However, the investments proved to be in vain as a proposed return to the Wintergarten was not approved, their trade license was not renewed as the authorities believed there were already too many film exhibitors active in town, and they managed to find one venue for a second tour.

1928

Coincidentally, the Lumière brothers happened to present their Cinematograph in their first commercial public screening on the 28th in Paris.

1929

One of the Bergère proprietors took them to the second presentation, on the 29th, and then cancelled the booking of the Bioskop, nonetheless paying them in full.

This possibly had something to do with patent rights, but the Cinematograph was clearly superior in image quality and much more easily operated than the Bioskop, and the Skladanowsky brothers may as well have preferred not to compete.