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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 ...
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 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 ...
The Autochrome Lumière was an early color photography process patented in 1903 [1] by the Lumière brothers in France and first marketed in 1907. [2] Autochrome was an additive color [3] "mosaic screen plate" process. It was one of the principal color photography processes in use before the advent of subtractive color film in the mid-1930s.
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.
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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.
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 ]