Raoul Grimoin-Sanson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French inventor
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Place of Birth: Elbeuf, Normandy, France
About Raoul Grimoin-Sanson
- Raoul Grimoin-Sanson (1860–1941) was an inventor in the field of early cinema.
- He was born in Elbeuf, as Raoul Grimoin; he added the surname Sanson later.
- He had an early interest in stage magic as well as photography. In the 1890s, Grimoin-Sanson began experiments in moving pictures, and desired to project films, like those from Thomas Edison's kinetoscope, on screen.
- In 1896, he invented a crude camera/projector combination called the Phototachygraphe.
- In 1897, he patented the Cinéorama, a panoramic film projection system involving ten synchronized projectors.
- The Cinéorama was demonstrated at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, but problems with heat from the projectors caused it to be shut down.
- Despite the failure of his Cinéorama company and of later film work, in the 1920s Grimoin-Sanson would attempt to claim to be one of the major pioneers of film, alongside Marey and the Lumières.
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