Auguste and Louis Lumiere are credited with the world's first public film screening onDecember 28, 1895. Ten short films that lasted a total of twenty minutes were shown in the basement lounge of the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris. It demonstrated the Cinematograph, patented February 13th, 1894, which effectively functioned as camera, projector and printer all in one.
The Lumiere Brothers have been credited with over 1,425 different short films and had even filmed aerial shots years before the very first aiplane would take to the skies.
The Lumières also proposed the loudspeaker and Tulle-gras® (to heal burns).
"The cinema is an invention without a future." -- Louis Lumiere
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3 comments:
WWI, doll...
JJ,
There's a French book of their color work that came out last year, a really beautiful (and expensive) collection. That's a nice site, those autochromes don't always reproduce that well...
Best,
Scott P.
I found the photos evocative of the stories that must be behind them.
I was amazed at how clear they were.
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