Lumiere Brothers

Auguste and Louis Lumiere, the first two French engineers who invented the first cinematographic process, held the worlds first ever public
film screening on 28th December 1895, the showing of ten shorts films lasting around 20 minutes was shown in the basement of the Grand
caf on the boulevard des capucine in Paris, this would be the first ever showing of work they called cinematography which effectively
functioned as a camera, printer and projector all in one. They are both considered to be the inventors of cinema.
Their work mostly consisted of moving images from scenes of everyday life. As well look back in retrospective in comparison to what film has
developed into today, the brothers believed it to be a medium without a future as they expected people would bore that they could just
easily see, however there film of a train pulling up to a train station captivated the audience known as (L'arrive d'un train en gare de La
Ciotat) as they thought it was going to pop out at them, this is one of the main brothers were trying to achieve, they tried to think of inventive ways to capture
the audience with something that was different and interesting. The brothers made many films including L'arroseur arros, (The Sprayer Sprayed' or 'Tables
Turned on the Gardner') a short film where a boy plays a trick on a garderner.
By the 19th century, other inventors had a found a way of capturing moving images. In France the Praxinoscope had attracted a large audience at the Grevin
theatre, while in the States, Thomas Edison was trying to sell his kinetoscope.
By early 1895, the Lumiere brothers had invented their very own device combing a printer, projector and camera calling it cinematographe. The brothers used
the film speed of 16 seconds per frame, a vast difference compared with Edisons 48 frames per second, this meant that less film was being used and the
grinding and clatter assorted with Edisons device was reduced. Louis had a decision to incorporate the principle of intermittent movement using a similar
device thats found in sewing machines. This was something that Edison had rejected as he struggled to perfect projection using a continuous movement.
Louis photographed the world around him, with some of his films being actuality films for examples workers leaving a factory, Louis like to capture the real life
and was happening. The brothers began opening theatres to project there films. In the first four months, the brothers had successfully opened four cinemas in in
Belgium, London, Brussels and New York.
In 1900, the brothers both projected a film onto a 99 by 79 foot screen at the Paris Exposition, after which they decided to curtail their film expeditions and
devoted their time to sale and manufactures of their inventions. By the 1907, the brothers had projected their first practical colour photography process, the
Autochrome plate.
Auguste and Louis were the two earliest film makers in history whole eliminated the popular imagination to such an extent that cinema would evolve into the art
it is today. From the very beginning, cinema captured peoples imagination and kept them guessing. When the Lumiere brothers sent film makers to and from
across the world to bring images back for its filmed news projection, it was clear that cinema would also take on an informative role.