The Lumière Brothers

The Lumière brothers

The Lumière brothers put down more than 170 patents,

essentially in the field of photography.

They are at the origin of commercialising instant

photographic plates in 1881.

The sale of these said plates called ‘Étiquettes-Bleues’

made their fortune.

They were at the origin of cinema which launched the

cinematographic industry in 1895.

They were at the origin of the obtaining colour on

photographic plates in 1907.

This plate, called "auto chromium", was considered by

Louis Lumiere, as his most prestigious invention, the

one to which he dedicated more than ten years of his

life.

Auguste Lumière

Louis Lumière

1. The first public projection in Europe is

attributed to the brothers Skladanowsky. On

November 1st, 1895, they presented a

movie of a15 minutes short film within the

framework of a program of entertainment in

Berlin. However the date generally by

agreed on as the birth of the cinema is in the

first public projection given by the Lumière

brothers to the Indian Lounge of the Grand

Café in Paris on December 28th 1895.

2. It was however preceded by several

repetitions. Indeed, on March 22nd, 1895

on the premises of the Company of

encouragement for the national industry in

Paris, that the first performance, of what

had to be the first movie of both inventors:

the Exit of the factory Light in Lyon, took

place. Following representations in Lyon, in

Brussels, in Ciotat with new movies being

made as they went along. The Meal of

baby, The Smiths, The Landing of the

congress of photography in Lyon, The

Peach in goldfish. The Lumière brothers

applied for the patent of their

cinematograph on February 13th, 1895.

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To create a movement, following the

appearance of a horse at full speed in

1876, Eadweard Muybridge did an

experiment:

He put twelve cameras along the track of

the Palo Alto park that triggered

automatically when the moving horse went

past.

Thus, it broke down into several motion

pictures, which allowed to prove that

sometimes the galloping horse performs

four hooves off the ground.

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