Emil Skladanowsky

Known for

Directing

Born

June 8, 1866

Emil Skladanowsky was a German inventor and early filmmaker. Along with his brother Max, he invented the Bioscop, an early movie projector the Skladanowsky brothers used to display the first 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.