Life-sized moving images were projected for public audiences a year before the Lumière brothers
Ottomar Anschütz achieved the first life-sized motion picture projections in 1894, using high-speed photography and a milk-glass screen to display acrobats and dancers to Berlin audiences.
On November 25, 1894, German inventor Ottomar Anschütz transformed cinema from an individual 'peep show' experience into a mass audience spectacle. In a Berlin post office auditorium, he used his Electrotachyscope to project life-sized images of wrestlers and dancers onto a large screen. This event preceded the Lumière brothers' commercial debut by a full year and drew an impressive 4,000 visitors over just eight shows.
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