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Who Were the Lumiere Brothers in History?
History of the Lumière Brothers
Let's delve deeper into the past and journey into the fascinating history of these trailblazers. Their story is one of ingenuity and perseverance, as they transformed the moving image from mere novelty to a powerful medium of expression and communication.
INVENTOR OF CINEMA
Who Were the Lumière Brothers?
The Lumière Brothers were born in the mid-19th century in Besançon, France, to a painter-turned-photographer father. Their father's profession sparked their keen interest in capturing life through a lens. Auguste (1862-1954) and Louis (1864-1948) were not just brothers but also close collaborators.
In 1895, the Lumière Brothers unveiled the Cinématographe, a portable motion-picture camera, projector, and printer. This invention revolutionized the entertainment industry, marking the birth of cinema as we know it. The device was a significant improvement over Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, offering chea
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Most honest histories are untidy; early film history especially so. The first years of cinema were a complex field in which the different elements that would make up the medium were ‘invented’ at different stages, in which the many participants engaged in its creation held widely different understandings of just what the medium meant, and in which the medium was profoundly interlinked with many other cultural, social and economic phenomena. All we should know of early film history is that we do not know it well enough.
Such uncertainty is not reflected in many a written history of the medium. In these, the story is expressed in easy stages: from experimentation, to invention, to illumination, to commercialisation. In this simple history, the work of the Lumière brothers, Louis and Auguste, is paramount. The one thing someone is likely to know about the birth of cinema is that the two French brothers were pre-eminent, and something about people supposedly running away
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Auguste and Louis Lumière were the two greatest pioneers in cinema. They are considered the earliest filmmakers in history as they developed the “cinèmatographe” with which they made the first motion picture. The brothers also made significant advances in photography, art, and medicine.
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