Kazimierz Prószyński

Kazimierz Prószyński

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Directing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1874-04-04

  • Day of Death

    1945-03-13 (70 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Warsaw, Poland

Biography

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.

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