Kazimierz Prószyński

Kazimierz Prószyński

Known For: Directing

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: April 4, 1874

Day of Death: March 13, 1945 (71 years old)

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland

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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.