Mavi Boncuk |
1896
In 1895 Lumière introduced his Cinématograph. In 1896 the first film showing by Monseigneur Bertrand took place in the Yildiz Palace of Istanbul. News events were covered by all early film-makers. The intense Orientalism of the Ottoman Empire and the scenic splendors of Istanbul was a powerful inspirations for early western moviemakers. The Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II, himself was an icon in Ottoman imagery, was quite impressed.
1897
[*] Once there was a greek Cafe on Grand Rue de Pera habituated and operated by immigrants form Evritania[2] that eventually turned into a beer hall called Sponek. Operated by Serafim Leludis the name was a hommage to Greek King's financial advisor Wilhelm Carl Eppingen Sponneck [3] .This where the first commercial film screening was made in the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
Pictured Grand Rue de Pera 1900
As filmed on highly inflammable cellulose nitrate, most of those early moving pictures seem to be lost forever. Not only images of the Imperial Family, but also Ottoman celebrities as Zeybek, the 'booted Muscled Dancer with his whip' and that everyday life in the old city and on the waters between Europe and Asia... That is why it is so important to collect and safe what rest of these Ottoman Films for coming generations. In 1897 a fierce fire destroyed the cinema pavilion of a charity bazaar in Paris, which took the lives of 124 people. Immediate search was opened for a replacement of the highly inflammable cellulose nitrate stock.
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( The old cafe was there but this was not the location of the film screening. Wrong date wrong location...1876!) Wall plaque for Sponeck at Asmalı Mescit, Meşrutiyet Cd. No:3, Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey. 
See also: Istanbul the Polyglot
Advert from The Levant Herald December 12, 1896 issue.“Beyoğlu’nda Galatasaray karşısında İsponek [Sponeck] salonunda İstanbul’da birinci defa olarak Paris ve bütün Avrupa’nın mazhar-ı takdiri olmuş olan canlı fotoğraf lubiyyatı [eğlencesi] her akşam icra olunur.” İlanın Fransızca bölümünde ise gösterinin her akşam 5.30 – 6.30 – 8.30 ve 9.30’da, Pazar ve Cuma günleri matine."
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Salle Sponeck Film Screening "Photographie Vivante" in Ottoman Turkish, French,Greek and Armenian(Turkish with Armenian Alphabet)
[1] 1896
THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847 - 1931)
Edison perfects and shows his Vitascope projector, which used the same film as the Kinetoscope. The Vitascope was the first commercially successful celluloid motion picture projector in the U.S.
The Vitascope[*] was an improved version of the Phantoscope, an invention of Francis Jenkins in 1893. Jenkins sold the rights to Edison through Thomas Armat. Edison presents the Vitascope for the first time in New York City at the Koster-Bial Music Hall, the present location of Macys.The Vitascope was originally the Phantoscope by Jenkins. It was acquired by Edison and changed and presented as the first celluloid motion picture projector in the U.S. Its commercial debut was in 1896. (Image Source:Smithsonian Institute)
[*] Vitascope was an early film projector first demonstrated in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. They had made modifications to Jenkins patented "Phantoscope", which cast images via film & electric light onto a wall or screen. The Vitascope is a large electrically-powered projector that uses light to cast images. The images being cast are originally taken by the kinetoscope mechanism onto gelatin film. Using an intermittent mechanism, the film negatives were produced up to fifty frames per second. The shutter opens and closes to reveal new images, this device can produce up to 3,000 negatives per minute.[1] With the original Phantoscope and before he partnered with Armat, Jenkins displayed the earliest documented projection of a filmed motion picture in June 1894 in Richmond, Indiana.
Armat independently sold the Phantoscope to The Kinetoscope Company. The company realized that their Kinetoscope would soon be a thing of the past with the rapidly advancing proliferation of early cinematic engineering. Just two years after the Vitascope was first demonstrated (1897) the technology was being nationally adopted.
[2] Evrytania is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Central Greece. Its capital is Karpenisi.
[3] Wilhelm Carl Eppingen Sponneck (16 February 1815, – 29 February 1888) was a Danish nobleman (rigsgreve) and Minister of Finance. He was influential in Danish customs affairs for several years. In 1863, he accompanied 17-year-old Prince selected with the help and financial promises of Carl Joachim Hambro[*] Vilhelm of Denmark to Greece where Vilhelm had just been elected king . Sponneck remained in Greece for a few years, serving as advisor to the youthful king.
The surname Sponeck was originally derived from the name of an Imperial Knight, Hilderbrand Spenli, who was granted the first occupancy of the Imperial Castle built in 1285 on a hillock overlooking the Rhine at the little village of Jechtingen, in Kaiserstuhl, Germany. He called the castle ‘Spanecke’ and by 1333 it had become known as Castle Sponeck. The first family to use this name hereditarily was the siblings von Hedwiger, a family of Knights from Silesia, in East Germany dating back to the 13th Century. The patriarch was one – Balthazar von Hedwiger, born 1510 in Silesia. The Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I, elevated the siblings Von Hedwiger to the rank and title of ‘Counts-of-the-Empire’ with the title name, ‘of Sponeck’ on the 2nd August 1701 in Vienna. They were Georg Wilhelm, Johann Christoph, Johann Rudolph and their sister, Anna Sabina who was married to Duke Leopold Eberhard von Württemberg-Mömpelgard.
In an Imperial Decree by the same Emperor Leopold I, dated 4th July 1702, the spelling of the name as ‘von Sponneck’ was used.
Colonel Georg Wilhelm von Hedwiger, Reichsgraf von Sponeck resigned the presidency of Mömpelgard and entered Denmark in the year 1703 in order to take up command of the Danish Troops to fight with the British, Austrian and Dutch under John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy in the ‘War of the Spanish Succession’, against the French King, Louis XIV. Georg Wilhelm took up residence in Copenhagen. On the 11th July 1889 the Sponneck family were incorporated into the Danish nobility with the Danish equivalent title by decree of King Christian IX of Denmark. Johann Rudolph then became president of the Duchy of Mömpelgard under the Duke of Württemberg-Mömpelgard in the year 1703.
[*] Carl Joachim Hambro started in the eighteenth century as a trader in Hamburg. He then moved to Copenhagen as a protégé of Rothschild. Around 1850 C. J. Hambro & Son had become a member of the first league of British bankers, by then situated in London. Hambro was interested in Mediterranean business, issuing loans for Sardinia and Cavour’s struggle for the unification of Italy, but was also active in the USA and Scandinavia. From 1864, Hambro & Son was the most important source of finance for Greece in Britain, due to its good relationship with the royal dynasty and King Georg. This relationship was based on concrete reasons. After the fall of the first Greek King Otho[**]
, in 1862 a Greek delegation came to London to look for a new king for their country. It was C. J. Hambro who introduced the Greeks to the Danish Prince Wilhelm, who in 1864 became King of Greece.
[**] Otto, also spelled Otho (Greek: O Όθων, Βασιλεύς της Ελλάδος, O Óthon, Vasiléfs tis Elládos; 1 June 1815 – 26 July 1867), was a Bavarian prince who became the first modern King of Greece in 1832 under the Convention of London.
[1] 1896
THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847 - 1931)
Edison perfects and shows his Vitascope projector, which used the same film as the Kinetoscope. The Vitascope was the first commercially successful celluloid motion picture projector in the U.S.
The Vitascope[*] was an improved version of the Phantoscope, an invention of Francis Jenkins in 1893. Jenkins sold the rights to Edison through Thomas Armat. Edison presents the Vitascope for the first time in New York City at the Koster-Bial Music Hall, the present location of Macys.The Vitascope was originally the Phantoscope by Jenkins. It was acquired by Edison and changed and presented as the first celluloid motion picture projector in the U.S. Its commercial debut was in 1896. (Image Source:Smithsonian Institute)
[*] Vitascope was an early film projector first demonstrated in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. They had made modifications to Jenkins patented "Phantoscope", which cast images via film & electric light onto a wall or screen. The Vitascope is a large electrically-powered projector that uses light to cast images. The images being cast are originally taken by the kinetoscope mechanism onto gelatin film. Using an intermittent mechanism, the film negatives were produced up to fifty frames per second. The shutter opens and closes to reveal new images, this device can produce up to 3,000 negatives per minute.[1] With the original Phantoscope and before he partnered with Armat, Jenkins displayed the earliest documented projection of a filmed motion picture in June 1894 in Richmond, Indiana.
Armat independently sold the Phantoscope to The Kinetoscope Company. The company realized that their Kinetoscope would soon be a thing of the past with the rapidly advancing proliferation of early cinematic engineering. Just two years after the Vitascope was first demonstrated (1897) the technology was being nationally adopted.
[2] Evrytania is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Central Greece. Its capital is Karpenisi.
[3] Wilhelm Carl Eppingen Sponneck (16 February 1815, – 29 February 1888) was a Danish nobleman (rigsgreve) and Minister of Finance. He was influential in Danish customs affairs for several years. In 1863, he accompanied 17-year-old Prince selected with the help and financial promises of Carl Joachim Hambro[*] Vilhelm of Denmark to Greece where Vilhelm had just been elected king . Sponneck remained in Greece for a few years, serving as advisor to the youthful king.
The surname Sponeck was originally derived from the name of an Imperial Knight, Hilderbrand Spenli, who was granted the first occupancy of the Imperial Castle built in 1285 on a hillock overlooking the Rhine at the little village of Jechtingen, in Kaiserstuhl, Germany. He called the castle ‘Spanecke’ and by 1333 it had become known as Castle Sponeck. The first family to use this name hereditarily was the siblings von Hedwiger, a family of Knights from Silesia, in East Germany dating back to the 13th Century. The patriarch was one – Balthazar von Hedwiger, born 1510 in Silesia. The Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I, elevated the siblings Von Hedwiger to the rank and title of ‘Counts-of-the-Empire’ with the title name, ‘of Sponeck’ on the 2nd August 1701 in Vienna. They were Georg Wilhelm, Johann Christoph, Johann Rudolph and their sister, Anna Sabina who was married to Duke Leopold Eberhard von Württemberg-Mömpelgard.
In an Imperial Decree by the same Emperor Leopold I, dated 4th July 1702, the spelling of the name as ‘von Sponneck’ was used.
Colonel Georg Wilhelm von Hedwiger, Reichsgraf von Sponeck resigned the presidency of Mömpelgard and entered Denmark in the year 1703 in order to take up command of the Danish Troops to fight with the British, Austrian and Dutch under John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy in the ‘War of the Spanish Succession’, against the French King, Louis XIV. Georg Wilhelm took up residence in Copenhagen. On the 11th July 1889 the Sponneck family were incorporated into the Danish nobility with the Danish equivalent title by decree of King Christian IX of Denmark. Johann Rudolph then became president of the Duchy of Mömpelgard under the Duke of Württemberg-Mömpelgard in the year 1703.
[*] Carl Joachim Hambro started in the eighteenth century as a trader in Hamburg. He then moved to Copenhagen as a protégé of Rothschild. Around 1850 C. J. Hambro & Son had become a member of the first league of British bankers, by then situated in London. Hambro was interested in Mediterranean business, issuing loans for Sardinia and Cavour’s struggle for the unification of Italy, but was also active in the USA and Scandinavia. From 1864, Hambro & Son was the most important source of finance for Greece in Britain, due to its good relationship with the royal dynasty and King Georg. This relationship was based on concrete reasons. After the fall of the first Greek King Otho[**]
, in 1862 a Greek delegation came to London to look for a new king for their country. It was C. J. Hambro who introduced the Greeks to the Danish Prince Wilhelm, who in 1864 became King of Greece.
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