Léon Bouly

Léon Guillaume Bouly (* 1872, † 1932) is adopted as a French inventor, the author of the name was Cinématographe. On February 12, 1892 under the name of the application filed for a patent on a " appareil de photographie et d' optique réversible pour l' analyze et la synthèse of Movements, dit le Cynématographe Léon Bouly ". It came to the French state patent number 219'350. On December 27, 1893, an amendment was attached to the name of his apparatus: Cinématographe.

The Cinématographe works with paper and roll film without perforation according to the principle of the clamp. The film drive is accomplished with a segment role towards full role.

As in 1894, the annual fee had not been paid for the patent, the term Cinématographe was commonplace and the following year reserved for the Lumière brothers.

Two of his equipment are kept at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. Since 2012 there is a replica of the apparatus.