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- Louis Lumière and his brother Auguste worked together to create a motion-picture camera superior to Thomas Edison 's kinetograph, which did not have a projector. The Lumières endeavored to correct the flaws they perceived in the kinetograph and the kinetoscope, to develop a machine with both sharper images and better illumination.
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Oct 3, 2014 · In 1881, 17-year-old Louis invented a new “dry plate” process of developing film, which boosted his father’s business enough to fuel the opening of a new factory in the Lyon suburbs. By 1894, the...
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Lumiere brothers, French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinematographe (‘cinema’ is derived from this name). They introduced projectable film and made the first movie, first newsreel, and first documentary.
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Feb 22, 2019 · In 1895, Louis and Auguste Lumière gave birth to the big screen thanks to their revolutionary camera and projector, the Cinématographe.
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Cinematographe, one of the first motion-picture apparatuses, used as both camera and projector. It was invented by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, manufacturers of photographic materials in Lyon, France. The Cinematographe was hand-cranked and lightweight.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The cinématographe — a three-in-one device that could record, develop, and project motion pictures — was further developed by the Lumières. [6] . The brothers patented their own version on 13 February 1895. [7] The date of the recording of their first film is in dispute.
By 1897, Edison's 35-mm film had become the standard, so Louis Lumière began to produce cameras and projectors that were capable of using the American film. In 1904, unable to keep...
Aug 29, 2024 · In fact, it was a Kinetoscope exhibition in Paris that inspired the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, to invent the first commercially viable projector. Their cinématographe , which functioned as a camera and printer as well as a projector, ran at the economical speed of 16 frames per second.