Lumière Brothers and Birth of Cinema
Auguste (1862-1954) and Louis (1864-1948) Lumière are the people who are credited with starting the film industry in 1895. They made money off manufacturing photographic plates. They invented the Cinematograph in Lyon, France, that was modeled on a sewing machine. With the Cinematograph a person could record, develop, and then project a movie. A person would have to crank it to make it work. It could only film less than a minute at a time and no one could make an edit. It used 35 mm film. It could shoot 16 frames a second, which stayed the norm until around the mid-1920s where the frame rate changed to 24fps (which is what it still is). These brothers made it very easy to make a film and, therefore, made it commercial.
Cinematograph
In the day after Christmas in 1895, the brothers held a public gathering for 200 people at the Le Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris to showcase ten movies that they have made. The first one that was shown was Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon. All of the ten did not have any narrative.
Not one of ten shown that day but another famous one that the brothers made is L’arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat. In it, a train comes straight at the screen and then people get out. There is a rumor that says that when it was shown and the train scene came, the audience screamed and ducked out of the way of the screen because they thought that the train was really coming at them.
The brothers did not really see a future for a film. Georges Méliès even wanted to buy their camera but the brothers declined. The brothers did, however, help develop color photography in the early-20th century.
Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895)
The Sprinkler Sprinkled (1895)
Baby's Dinner (1895)
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