Okres wczesnego kina na Dolnym Śląsku
Early Cinema Period in Lower Silesia

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with early cinema in Lower Silesia, in particular the first film screenings in 1896, the operation of travelling cinemas, the establishment of fixed cinemas, and the transition from ‘number programs’ (consisting of multiple one-act films) to programs based on multi-act film with an accompanying program. The focus is on small towns in Lower Silesia, as the metropolis of Wroclaw has been discussed elsewhere. The article shows, among other things, that in Lower Silesia cinematography quickly spread in small towns – already in 1896 films were shown in several towns, and Namyslow, with a population of six thousand, where a cinema opened in 1912, switched to multi-act film screenings in the same year.

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