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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 ...
When the Lumiere brothers held the first commercial cinema screening in Paris almost 130 years ago, few could have imagined what an all-consuming monster it would become. With multi-million dollar ...
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.
Louis Lumière is most often associated with the name of his brother, Auguste Lumière, under the name of the Lumière brothers. This comparison is a little excessive with regard to the invention of the cinematograph , since in reality, Auguste failed in his attempt to manufacture the first machine, and passed it to his brother who made the ...
To create the short film, the Lumière Brothers used a cinematograph, a new projection device which was beginning to be used at that time. [5] The brothers sent different equipment all over the world in order to film a variety of scenes and images. Two of the main filming locations were France and Spain. [5]
The Lumières were known to project Démolition d'un mur in both forward and reverse motion.An urban legend attributed this to an inadvertent discovery in which the film strip was rewound in the projector while the light was still on.
Bataille de neige (transl. Snow Fight), also known as Snowballing, [1] [2] is an 1897 French short silent film produced by the Lumiére brothers. Filmed in Lyon , France , it depicts a number of individuals engaged in a snowball fight on a city street.
The brothers screened their first film using this device in December 1895, and following the success of this initial venture opened a number of cinemas worldwide. However, Auguste was skeptical of the potential of the device, remarking "My invention can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value ...