LUMIERE

BROTHERS
THE KINETOSCOPE, A PRIMITIVE MOTION-PICTURE PROJECTOR.
ANTOINE LUMIÈRE ATTENDED AN
EXHIBITION OF EDISON’S KINETOSCOPE IN
PARIS. 
THE CINEMATOGRAPHE
AFTER A NUMBER OF PRIVATE SCREENINGS, THE LUMIÈRE BROTHERS SHOWED THE
CINÉMATOGRAPHE IN THEIR FIRST PUBLIC SCREENING ON DECEMBER 28, 1895, AT
THE GRAND CAFE ON PARIS’ BOULEVARD DE CAPUCHINES.
THEIR PIONEERING MOTION PICTURE CAMERA, THE
CINÉMATOGRAPHE, HAD LENT ITS NAME TO AN EXCITING NEW
FORM OF ART AND ENTERTAINMENT: CINEMA WITHOUT WHICH WE
CAN'T IMAGINE OUR LIVES.