Louis Jean Lumiere and film projection

Auguste and Louis Lumière

Louis Jean Lumiere
October 5th, 1864 to June 6th, 1948

Louis Jean Lumiere was a French inventor, who worked with his brother Auguste, to make pioneering motion-picture equipment. Louis invented the 25-lb "Cinématographe" twin-function projector and camera, which improved on Edison's Kinetoscope by adding a intermittent film motion mechanism (based on the sewing machine). On 13 Feb 1895, they jointly patented the device (as was their custom). It was first demonstrated to an invited audience on 22 Mar 1895, showing their first film to an invited audience who viewed La Sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière showing workers leaving the Lumière factory. The hugely successful first public screening on 28 Dec 1895 of their films in Paris was the "birth" of the cinema.

La Sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière

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Lumière brothers

1895

Persistence of vision

Zoetrope anniversary