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The Lumière brothers (UK: / ˈ l uː m i ɛər /, US: / ˌ l uː m i ˈ ɛər /; French:), Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948), [1] [2] were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and ...
The train moving directly towards the camera was said to have terrified spectators at the first screening, a claim that has been called an urban legend.. This 50-second silent film shows the entry of a train pulled by a steam locomotive into the Gare de La Ciotat, the train station of the French southern coastal town of La Ciotat, near Marseille.
Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet. It has also featured in a number of film collections including Landmarks of Early Film volume 1, The Movies Begin – A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894–1913 and The Lumière Brothers' First Films.
One of the first animated films in the world Pauvre Pierrot: Émile Reynaud: Animation: One of the first animated films in the world Un bon bock: Émile Reynaud: Animation: The first film to be screened using Reynaud's optical theatre 1895: L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat: Lumière brothers: Pioneer film L'Arroseur Arrosé: Louis ...
The first screening of L'Arroseur arrosé took place on June 10, 1895, when Louis and Auguste Lumière presented a selection of their films in a larger setting for the first time during a congress of the French Photographers' Association in Lyon, which lasted several days. In the following months, further private screenings of the Lumière ...
Their first films include Incident at Clovelly Cottage (March), The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race (March 30) and Rough Sea at Dover. [ 1 ] February 13 – In France, the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe , a combination lightweight, hand-held movie camera and projector .
The Lumière brothers made their first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (Sortie de l'usine Lumière de Lyon), that same year. The first commercial, public screening of cinematographic films happened on 20 May 1895 at 156 Broadway, New York City, when the "Eidoloscope", invented by Woodville Latham and Eugene Lauste was presented. [3]
The first cinematographic projection in Romania took place on 27 May 1896, less than five months after the first public film exhibition by the Lumière brothers on 28 December 1895 in Paris. In the Romanian exhibition, a team of Lumière brothers' employees screened several films, including the famous L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat. [9]