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Lumière and Company (original title: Lumière et compagnie) is a 1995 anthology film made in collaboration between forty-one international film directors. The project consists of short films made by each of the filmmakers using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers.
The Lumière brothers ( UK: / ˈluːmiɛər /, US: / ˌluːmiˈɛər /; French: [lymjɛːʁ] ), Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948), [1] [2] were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system ...
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 ...
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Dec 20, 1995 · 1 Video. 3 Photos. Documentary Drama. 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers. Directors. Theodoros Angelopoulos. Vicente Aranda. John Boorman. Writer. Philippe Poulet. Stars. Pernilla August. Max von Sydow. Merzak Allouache. See production info at IMDbPro.
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Auguste and Louis continued to work on technical developments, and in 1900 devised a camera which took large-format 75mm films. By 1905, however, the Lumière brothers withdrew from the cinema business. They worked instead on inventing the first successful photographic colour process—the Lumière Autochrome —in 1907.
Dec 6, 1996 · Lumière & Company. Roger Ebert December 06, 1996. Tweet. “I feel like crossing myself,” one of the directors says, looking at the simple wooden box within which the first film was shot. Called the “cinematograph,” it is about a foot square, with a crank on one side. It was restored by Philippe Poulet of the Museum of Cinema in Lyon ...
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Director: Abbas Kiarostami. Country: France / Denmark / Spain / Sweden. Year: 1995. Runtime: 1 minutes. Color / Black & White / Mono. Forty directors from around the world used the restored 1895 Lumière brothers' Cinématographe camera to film forty shorts, each lasting 52 seconds.
