Auguste and Louis Lumière
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Oct 3, 2014 · After his father, Antoine, a well-known portrait painter turned photographer, opened a small business in photographic plates based in Lyon, Louis Lumière began experimenting with the equipment ...
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Lumière brothers, were French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinématographe (“cinema” is derived from this name). Auguste Lumière (b. October 19, 1862, Besançon, France—d. April 10, 1954, Lyon) and his brother Louis Lumière (b.
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The Lumière brothers were born in Besançon, France, to Charles-Antoine Lumière (1840–1911) [3] and Jeanne Joséphine Costille Lumière, who were married in 1861 and moved to Besançon, setting up a small photographic portrait studio. Here were born Auguste, Louis and their daughter Jeanne.
Feb 22, 2019 · This family of inventors lived up to their name—lumière means “light” in French—illuminating life as they archived the past, captured the unseen, and created filmmakers and audiences...
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Antoine Lumière. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. In 1860 Antoine Lumière left his hometown in the Haute-Saône to set up a photography business in Besançon. His first son, Auguste was born in 1862, and the second, Louis, arrived two years later.
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Antoine Lumiere. Father of Louis and Auguste, inventors of the Cinématographe. Born on 13 March 1840 at Haute-Saone, Ormoy, France, Antoine was orphaned at fourteen. He took up carpentry and studied scientific books before becoming apprenticed to painting teacher Auguste Constantin, and after military service studied under photographer Nadar.
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Famous for inventing the cinematograph and autochrome, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis Lumière, are among the most significant figures in film and photography history.
