German inventor and early filmmaker. Along with his brother Max, he invented the Bioscop, an early movie projector the Skladanowsky brothers used to display the first moving picture show to a paying audience on November 1, 1895, some two months before the public debut of the Lumière Brothers’ technically superior Cinématographe. Vintage 3.75 x 5.5 postcard photo, signed and inscribed in pencil in German “To my old friend Walter Hahle, as a souvenir and remembrance, Emil Skladanowsky - Berlin 4.11.35.” In fine condition, with a bit of scattered light soiling. R&R COA.
