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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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.
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 monument to the Lumière brothers can be seen on the far right. The Place Ambroise-Courtois is a square in the neighborhood of Monplaisir in the 8th arrondissement of Lyon . It was named after Ambroise Courtois [ FR ] , a city councillor, on 30 October 1944, months after Courtois was assassinated by the Milice française .
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The festival is named in honor of the Lumière brothers, who invented the Cinématographe motion picture system in 1895, and is organized by the Institut Lumière. The festival focuses on the history of cinema with the line-up dedicated to the works of the past through restored prints, retrospectives and tributes. [ 1 ]