Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière , born October 19 , 1862 in Besançon and died April 10 , 1954 in Lyon and Louis Jean Lumière , born October 5 , 1864 in Besançon and died June 6 , 1948 in Bandol in the Var , are two engineers and industrialists French who have played a primordial and decisive role in the history of cinema and photography . They are often referred to as the Lumière brothers.

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Private and public screenings of 1895

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From 1895 onwards, the Lumière brothers thus took a leading role in the launch of the cinema show, the beginnings of a flourishing industry that the Frenchman Charles Pathé would develop in particular. In 1893 , the two brothers were at the origin of obtaining color on a dry photographic plate, called " autochrome ", which Louis Lumière, who paradoxically does not like cinema 11 , considers to be his most prestigious invention, the one to which he devoted more than ten years of his life.

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It was on February 13 , 1895 , in Paris , that Auguste and Louis Lumière filed their patent for the cinematograph. They bought the appellation from Léon Bouly in 1892 , who had deposited it to protect his devices, two of which are kept at the Museum of Arts and Crafts 4 , but their proper functioning has never been proven, no article of professional presses and scientist of the time does not attest to the existence of any projection carried out by their inventor, who would nevertheless not have failed to attract attention.

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The first film shot by Louis Lumière is Factory Outlet, better known today as The Exit from the Lumière Factory in Lyon. It was shot on March 19, 1895 , in Lyon rue Saint-Victor (currently called rue du Premier-Film). The first private performance of the Cinématographe Lumière took place in Paris on March 22, 1895, at the premises of the Société d'Inouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale 13 . In the process, Louis Lumière shot during the summer of 1895 the famous Gardener who would later become L'Arroseur arrosé . It is the most famous film of the Lumière brothers and the first of the animated photographic fictions note 1 .

While waiting for the first public session, the Lumière show the Cinematograph to many scientists. The success is always considerable. June 11, 1895 for the Congress of Photographers in Lyon, July 11 in Paris at the Revue générale des sciences, November 10 in Brussels in front of the Belgian Association of Photographers, November 16 in the amphitheater of the Sorbonne, etc.

Their first public screening took place on December 28, 1895 at the Indian Salon of the Grand Café of the Scribe hotel, 14 boulevard des Capucines in Paris, presented by Antoine Lumière in front of thirty-three spectators 14 . Charles Moisson , the manufacturer of the device, is the chief engineer, he supervises the projection. The price of the session is set at 1 franc.

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OTHER INVENTIONS

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In addition to the Lumière Cinematograph, the Lumière Brothers also invented the ready-to-use instant dry photographic plate known as the Blue Label in 1881 , the Autochrome plate (color photography process) in 1903 , photostereosynthesis ( relief photography process) in 1920 . They were also interested in the cinema in relief (by the process of the anaglyphs ).

They are the source of many other inventions and theories. In the medical world, Auguste Lumière tried in particular - without success, and his resentment towards his colleagues appears in his works - to disseminate a theory of colloidal phenomena in biology 19 .

196 patents + 43 additives have been identified with "Lumière" as holder (collective patents + Lumière companies + individual patents). Auguste Lumière invented many drugs such as Tulle gras to treat burns , tuberculosis therapy using gold salts and Cryogenin 20 , Allocaine , Emgé Lumière , etc.

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The home of their father Antoine, located near their old factories, in Montplaisir in the 8th arrondissement of Lyon , is today a cinema museum: the Institut Lumière , chaired by the filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier and directed by Thierry Frémaux .

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