1. LUMIERE BROTHERS

2. BACKGROUND
INFORMATION
 Their father (Antione Lumiere) was a painter who ran a
photography firm.
 They were born on 5 of October 1864 and 19th of October 1862.
 Educated at La Martiniere which was Lyons largest technical
school.
 They had innovated the portable and much lighter cinematographe
this has inspired by Thomas Edison

3. CATALOGUE
La Sortie de usines Lumière (1894)
La Voltige (1895)
La Peche aux poissons rouges (1895)
La Debarquement du congres de photographie a Lyons (1895)
Les Forgerons (1895)
L’ Arroseur arrose (1895)
Repas de bebe (1895)
Place des Cordeliers a Lyon (1895)
La Mer (1895)

4. OVERVIEW OF THEIR
WORK
 They tended to do moving images of scenes of everyday life
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_9N68MO9gM
 Peoples reaction to the clip they thought it was so scary that men
screamed and women fainted
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV9T-tFPHVI

5. TIMELINE
1824: Peter Roget presented his paper 'The persistence of vision with regard to moving objects' to the British Royal Society.
1831: Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau (a Belgian scientist) and Dr. Simon Rittrer constructed a machine called a
phenakitstoscope. This machine produced an illusion of movement by allowing a viewer to gaze at a rotating disk containing
small windows; behind the windows was another disk containing a sequence of images. When the disks were rotated at the
correct speed, the synchronization of the windows with the images created an animated effect.
1872: Eadweard Muybridge started his photographic gathering of animals in motion.
1887: Thomas Edison started his research work into motion pictures.
1889: Thomas Edison announced his creation of the kinetoscope which projected a 50ft length of film in approximately 13
seconds.
1889: George Eastman began the manufacture of photographic film strips using a nitro-cellulose base.
1892: Emile Renynaud, combining his earlier invention of the praxinoscope with a projector, opens the Theatre Optique in
the Musee Grevin. It displays an animation of images painted on long strips of celluloid.
1895: Louis and Augustine Lumiere issued a patent for a device called a cinematograph capable of projecting moving
pictures.
1896: Thomas Armat designed the vitascope which projected the films of Thomas Edison. This machine had a major
influence on all sub-sequent projectors.
1906: J. Stuart Blackton made the first animated film which he called "Humorous phases of funny faces." His method was to
draw comical faces on a blackboard and film them. He would stop the film, erase one face to draw another, and then film the
newly drawn face. The Ôstop-motionÕ provided a starting effect as the facial expressions changed be fore the viewerÕs eyes.
1908: In France Emile Cohl produced a film, Phantasmagorie which was the first depicting white figures on a black
background.
1910: Emile Cohl makes En Route the first paper cutout animation. This technique saves time by not having to redraw each
new cell, only reposition the paper.

6. QUOTES
`The cinema is an invention without a future’
`The Lumiere family had a love for magic’
`He’s really doing it, it’s not a trick’
`He’s perhaps a worlds first actor’
`My grandfather past away before he could actually live in his castle. He never slept in it…’

7. IMPACT ON THE FUTURE
The Lumiere brothers had changed the future of film. They
are often called ‘the fathers of film making’. They have
used the ideas of film to express stories with simple films
which were less than a minute long.

8. REFERENCES
 The telegraph- news paper article
 http://www.nndb.com/people/388/000212749/
 http://www.earlycinema.com/pioneers/lumiere_bio.html
 http://www.joshuamosley.com/UPenn/courses/Ani/AnimationHisto
ry.html
 Times of India- news paper article
 https://film110.pbworks.com/w/page/12610310/The%20Lumi%C3
%A8re%20Brothers