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moving pictures that were on display at the Stockholm exhibition
were shot by a cinematographer working for the Lumière
brothers. During the summer of 1896, moving pictures had already
been projected in Sweden, first in Malmö and then in Stockholm,
but the film as a mass medium didn't became truly popular until
the Stockholm Exhibition.
It has
been said that 75.000 people visited the small cinema that
was housed in a room in a replica of the old Stockholm castle,
Tre Kronor, during the exhibition. The program offered films
from the Lumière catalogue.
All films
were 15 meters long - the total length a projector could manage
- and cinematographer Alexandre Promio was representing the
company Lumière on the exhibition.
The actual
cinema, with room for 60 visitors at a time, was run by Numa
Petersons Handels- och Fabriks AB on concession from the company
Lumière. Promio's assignment was to oversee the film
show, while he at the same time, assisted by Ernest Florman,
produced new films on site in Stockholm.
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