Early Cinema Today, KINtop 1Invented in the 1890s and premiered in Paris by the Lumire brothers, the cinematograph along with Louis Le Prince's single lens camera projector are considered by film historians to be the precursors to modern day motion picture devices. These early movies were often shown in town halls, on fairgrounds, and in theaters, requiring special showmanship skills to effectively work the equipment and entertain onlookers. Within the last decade, film archives