Kazimierz Prószyński

1874 - 1945

Kazimierz Prószyński (4 April 1875 – 13 March 1945), born in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish inventor active in the field of cinema. He patented his first film camera, called Pleograph (in Polish spelling: Pleograf), before the Lumière brothers, and later went on to improve the cinema projector for the Gaumont company, as well as invent the widely used hand-held Aeroscope camera.

Фильмы

Powrót birbanta

Kazimierz Junosza-Stepowski, Władysław Neubelt

First narrative polish film. The janitor sweeps the pavement in front of the tenement house. A carriage comes with a rather solidly inserted young man. He is well-dressed but has lost all his strength. Merry Fellow needs help.

The Return of a Merry Fellow

4.9 ⚠️ 1902

Россия, комедия

Ślizgawka w Łazienkach

Kazimierz Prószyński

The film was about a group of Polish ice skaters at the slide of the Warsaw Ice Skating Society. The film was filmed using a pleograph which was an early type of the movie camera invented by Kazimierz Prószyński.

Skating-rink in the Royal Baths

4.2 ⚠️ 1894