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Skating-rink in the Royal Baths

Skating-rink in the Royal Baths

Motion picture by Kazimierz Prószyński. Warsaw, 1894

1894•1m•6.3/10
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6.3/10(3)

The film was about a group of Polish ice skaters at the slide of the Warsaw Ice Skating Society. The film was filmed using a pleograph which was an early type of the movie camera invented by Kazimierz Prószyński.

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Towarzystwo Udziałowe Pleograf

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