Introducing the Lumiere Brothers

Aside from history, I am also quite fascinated with photography and filmmaking. Thus, I have delegated myself the task of knowing more about the person behind the invention of still color photography. I was a bit surprised to find out that there were actually two people to take credit for the said invention. Thus, I would like to introduce the Lumiere Brothers.

Auguste and Louis saw life in Twin Valley, Besançon, France. As adults, they worked for their father who owned a company that has photography as its service. Louis and Auguste worked as physicist and manager respectively. Incidentally, it was the former who made some developments in the art of still-photography processes. I am talking about the dry-plate process. Now, the said process actually paved the way for the development of moving images.

The creation of moving pictures were done by the Lumiere brothers when their father retired around 1892. They also created some sprocket holes for the film strap so that the film could be moved in the camera as well as the projector. The cinematographe was actually patented in 1895. Incidentally, it was on March 19, 1895 that the 1st footage using the said camera was recorded.