Max Skladanowsky

Birthday: 4/30/1863
Deathday: 11/30/1939
Place of birth: Germany
Fame for: Directing

Biography

Max Skladanowsky was a German inventor and early filmmaker. Along with his brother Emil, 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.