#lumiere brothers

[citizenscreen]

Louis and Auguste Lumière presented the world’s first commercial movie screening at the Grand Cafe in Paris on December 28, 1895. The brothers showed a series of short scenes from everyday French life and charged admission for the first time. #OnThisDay

[lindahall]

The Lumière Brothers – Scientists of the Day

The Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, were a pair of pioneering French filmmakers and inventors.

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Lumiere Brothers Danse Serpentine 1896

Loïe Fuller

[teledyn]

Lumière and Company (1995, original title "Lumière et Cie") was a collaboration between 41 international film directors in which each made a short film using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers. Shorts were edited in-camera and abided by three rules: 1. A short may be no longer than 52 seconds 2. No synchronized sound 3. No more than three takes

(via Lumière and Company - David Lynch - YouTube)

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[hms-no-fun]

georges melies made dozens of classic trick movies before 1900! the astronomer's dream is fantastic and it came out in 1898!

but also, let's not just throw the lumiere brothers under the bus so nonchalantly. take a film history class that spends at least two weeks on silent cinema and you WILL come to appreciate the subjects and compositions they chose for their reels. they didn't just set the camera down any old where, they sought out pleasing lines of motion that highlighted depth of field and contrast. just because they're primitive doesn't mean they aren't enjoyable, and in fact i find their work to be immensely interesting precisely for how many principles of film-making were already bubbling under the surface even when it was still a glorified tech demo. here's one of a girl feeding a cat with commentary that helpfully points how this image is clearly being directed

take a look at the following montage of early lumiere films and tell me there's no art here, nothing to appreciate or think on enough to say "i enjoyed this." note the topics of interest: youth and family on one side, factory and industry on the other. study the compositions and reflect on the fact that there's more to shooting a single shot than merely setting up the camera. a good image requires a good eye, and a good moving image requires an understanding of reality over time. imagine setting up this camera in environments where no one's ever seen a cinematograph, inventing and experimenting with this new grammar based on portraiture and early photography as a reference. now imagine someone without that eye trying to do the same thing. imagine how easy it would be to get flat, boring shots if the creators were just a little less precise, a little less careful in their choices. there's a reason the lumiere experiments so quickly gave rise to cinema as an international form of mass entertainment, and it's not because audiences back then were dumb and thought the train was gonna hit them. it's because these images are genuinely compelling and tell their own (short, simple, rudimentary) stories, enough so that georges melies himself saw the first screening on december 28 1895 and immediately wanted to buy one of the cameras (they refused, and melies turned to other inventors in the space, of which there were many). there's actually a lot to chew on here if you sit with it long enough to get past the "i could shoot this on my phone in five seconds" impulse!

then there's alice guy-blache, arguably the first woman film director in history and a key figure in the establishment of the Gaumont film company, the oldest still-running studio on earth. she made her first film in 1896, though admittedly most of her surviving work is from the 1910s.

anyway, don't be so quick to write off the films of the late 19th century! everything you love about movies started there, after all :)

[lifewithaview]

Photographe (1895) dir.Louis Lumière

(Lumiere No. 118)

The Subject-Auguste Lumière

The Photographer-Clément Maurice

A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him. Just as the photographer is about to take the picture, the subject gets up to look at the camera more closely. The frustrated photographer soon becomes quite impatient.

[bollywoodirect]

On This Day: (07/07) in 1896, 1st film was screened in India. Lumiere brothers' associate Marius Sestier showcased 6 films at Watson Hotel, Bombay.

An advertisement for the show appeared in the Bombay Gazette and The Times Of India on the morning of the screening. “The marvel of the century!" the headline read, and beneath it, “The wonder of the world!!" The playbill promised “Living photographic pictures in life-sized reproductions"—perhaps the clearest description that could be offered to readers with little or no conception of cinema. Courtesy- Livemint

[ourlittleuluru]

Xavier, I know what you're gonna say... but... 🫠🫠🫠

Lumiere really is the best 😭😭😭

Thanks to Lumiere I managed to clear Light Orbit 120!!! ♡⸜(ˆᗜˆ˵ )⸝♡

Look, I tried my best with Senior brother Xavier 🥺 but he just couldn't... I keep failing the stage with half of the last HP bar left... and yet Lumiere, even though he's using LS solar pair and some hacked together protocore, still managed it somehow 😭😭

[4eternal-life]

Invented by the Lumière Brothers, Autochrome was the first color photographic process to be marketed. As soon as it was put on the market in 1907, it was an immediate success with amateur and professional photographers. This is the photographic medium used by Albert Kahn for his Archives de la planète, the world’s first global report in color. Among the early adopters stands out a singular personality Antonin Personnaz (French, 1854 – 1936)  is indeed one of the most important collectors of Impressionism, and is one of the great benefactors of national museums.

His 1937 bequest includes 142 first-rate works (Pissarro, Guillaumin, Sisley, Degas, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, etc.), including Monet’s famous Pont d’Argenteuil, which are today among the masterpieces presented at the Musée d’Orsay and at the Musée Bonnat-Helleu. Less well known is his status as an active member of the French Photography Society (from 1896) and of the Society of Excursions for Photography Amateurs (from 1900). As such, he is at the origin of a distinction awarded to the Lumière Brothers for the invention of the autochrome plate, whose grainy and pointillist rendering seems to him to join the research of Impressionist painters, and whose aesthetic qualities he ardently defends. From 1907, Antonin Personnaz assiduously practiced autochromy himself and produced more than a thousand plates, which his widow donated to the Société française de photographie. Despite its interest in the history of Impressionism, this collection has been little studied and shown. However, because of its proximity to artists, Personnaz’s photographic work is of exceptional interest.

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/life-in-colors-antonin-personnaz-impressionist-photographer-dd/

Antonin Personnaz (1907-1936), autochrome.

[wav3y-zzz]

Hi!

I saw your post about wanting to draw random historical figures, would it be OK if I gave a couple of suggestions?

1. Michael Faraday

2.Andre Marie Ampere

3.The brothers Lumiere

4.Luigi Galvani

I'm sorry if i gave too many suggestions lol

But I hope you like some of them! ☺️💕

(Ps. I love your art sooooo much, I can't express it in words but it really makes my day)

NEVER TOO MANY! here are your guys

Michael Faraday and Andre Marie Ampere

Thr Lumiere brothers and Luigi Galvani WOWIE WOWIE😁😁😁😁

[citizenscreen]

On March 22, 1895, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, screened their first film, "La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory)," to an invited audience in Paris. #OnThisDay

[bluntblade]

Arrival of a Train (The Lumiere Brothers, 1895)

Dune Part 2 (Denis Villeneuve, 2024)

[kvetchs]

me and those old movies…

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Durs Grünbein Reading at The Goethe-Institute, London

Please Note: this blog and website are now captured and preserved at the UK Web Archive held at The British Museum. Many thanks to them. The highlight of last week was attending Durs Grünbein’s reading at The Goethe- Institute, where he was in discussion with his English translator, Karen Leeder. At the beginning of the evening, Grünbein joked that he’d not been in the UK for a few years and…