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BioMax Films

Bringing lost large format cinema back to the screen

  • The Biograph Project
  • About us
  • W.K-L. Dickson
  • Capturing the 19th century
  • History

Seventy years before IMAX® astonished audiences, W.K-L. Dickson amazed the world with images captured on his 68mm Biograph motion picture camera. Granted unique access to scan digitally original 68mm nitrate elements, BioMax Films will present these films again, in their true scale, for the first time in over a century on 15P/70mm.

The Biograph Project (working title) will be a 40-minute journey around the world of over one hundred years ago, seen through the dazzling images of the Biograph camera.

Capturing the 19th century

It is over 40 years since IMAX® astonished audiences at Expo '70 in Osaka. That was over 70 years after W.K-L. Dickson, in 1896, first astonished the world with images captured on his Biograph camera.

Born in France, before emigrating to the US via England, Dickson developed the world's first successful motion picture system for Thomas Edison. Driven by his desire to improve picture resolution Dickson branched out with three associates to form the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. They embarked on a unique venture using a 68mm film stock to record scenes of daily life and important figures with which to enthral audiences wherever the films were screened.

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History

Biograph was a film company and a film projector. The company was founded in America in 1895 by Herman Casler, Elias Koopman, Harry Marvin and W.K-L. Dickson to exploit the Mutagraph camera, the Biograph projector and the Mutoscope, a peepshow film viewer.

The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company went on to become one of the world's leading film companies, later simplyfying its name to American Biograph, for whom D.W. Griffith directed hundreds of films.

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W.K-L. Dickson

Cinematographer, artist, writer, musician and inventor - William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson was 'the man who made movies' and the man who directed most of the Biograph 68mm films around the world. In 1892, when working for Thomas Edison, he came up with the world's first motion picture film system.

He supervised all of Edison's film production to 1895, then joined Biograph as its chief filmmaker, working in Britain, across Europe, and filmed the Anglo-Boer War. Not simply a motion picture pioneer, Dickson was a film artist of the first order.

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Contact

Adrian Wood
Email: info@biomaxfilms.com

BioMax Films

BioMax Films is dedicated to the creative presentation of archive film for audiences today.

BioMax Films is led by a team with many years’ experience in film archives, broadcasting and archive film exhibition.

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