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Lumiere owned a substantial library of films from the Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment/Weintraub library, representing a third of all movies made in the UK from the beginning of silent pictures. Cazes then spun off Lumiere's Los Angeles branch into a new company, Lumiere International. [99]
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 ...
Autochrome is an additive color [3] "mosaic screen plate" process. The medium consists of a glass plate coated on one side with a random mosaic of microscopic grains of potato starch [6] dyed red-orange, green, and blue-violet (a variant of the standard red, green, and blue additive colors); the grains of starch act as color filters.
Pierre Ernest Jules Brulatour (April 7, 1870 – October 26, 1946) was a pioneering executive figure in American silent cinema.Beginning as American distribution representative for Lumiere Brothers raw film stock in 1907, he joined producer Carl Laemmle in forming the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company in 1909, effectively weakening the stronghold of the Motion Picture Patents ...
Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (French: [oɡyst maʁi lwi nikɔla lymjɛʁ]; 19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) [1] was a French engineer, industrialist, biologist, and illusionist.
L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (translated from French into English as The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat [US] and The Arrival of the Mail Train, and in the United Kingdom as Train Pulling into a Station) is an 1896 French short silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
The moving pictures could be viewed through an eyepiece. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Cinematograph proved very successful so the Lumières did not bother with the Kinora but passed the idea on to Gaumont,who marketed the device and about a hundred different reels around 1900.
Cordeliers' Square in Lyons, directed by Louis Lumiere; Photograph, directed by Louis Lumiere; The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon, directed by Louis Lumiere; Princess Ali a.k.a. Egyptian Dance, directed by William Heise; Rough Sea at Dover, directed by Birt Acres; Le Saut à la couverture; Serpentinen Tanz; L'Arroseur Arrosé, directed ...