Lumière brothers
Early film inventors
The Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, were French inventors who created the Cinématographe in the 1890s—a device that could record, develop, and project motion pictures.
Their 1895 public screenings in Paris are considered the birth of cinema as public entertainment.
The Lumières' arrival of a train reportedly sent audiences fleeing.
- LyonMajor French city
- kinetoscopeEarly motion picture viewer
- motion pictureFilmed visual narrative
- moving picturesSequential images creating motion
- photographyCreating images from light
audience reaction · silent film · silent era · nickelodeon · factory · factory workers · arrival · workers · entertainment industry · zoetrope · movie theaters · train · magic lantern · cinematograph · silver screen · visual storytelling · projection screen · pictures