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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 2022365, member: 24274&quot;]Very cool. Those would have been some of the earliest commercial films. Even the &quot;feature&quot; films weren&#039;t much longer than 20 minutes at that time. The Lumiere brothers invented the the French movie camera -- the Cinématographe -- and went on to shoot hundreds of movies themselves. I can&#039;t tell from the scan, but are any of the signatures on that bond &quot;Lumiere&quot;? <a href="http://www.earlycinema.com/pioneers/lumiere_bio.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.earlycinema.com/pioneers/lumiere_bio.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.earlycinema.com/pioneers/lumiere_bio.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You inspired me to scan a few stocks from American movie companies. These are a little more recent, but the first one (Orpheum) was a chain of theatres that showed silent movies and also vaudeville shows.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]366441[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]366442[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]366443[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]366444[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]366445[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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