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navigation, search This article is concerned with technical
aspects of moving film projection. For non-film movie
projection, see digital cinema. For historical aspects, see the
article history of cinema. 35 mm movie projector in operation.
The cinématographe Lumière in projection mode. Simulation of a
spinning zoopraxiscope  The first movie projector was the
Zoopraxiscope, invented by British photographer Eadweard
Muybridge in 1879. The zoopraxiscope projected images from
rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression
of motion. The stop-motion images were initially painted onto
the glass, as silhouettes. A second series of discs, made in
1892–94, used outline drawings printed onto the discs
photographically, then colored by hand.[1]  A more sophisticated
movie projector was invented by Frenchman Louis Le Prince while
working in Leeds. In 1888 Le Prince took out a patent for a
16-lens device that combined a motion picture cam