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Auguste and Louis Lumiere

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Also Known As The Lumiere Brothers

Film Pioneers

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Film and Media Atlas. "Auguste and Louis Lumiere." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/lumiere-brothers.

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Film and Media Atlas. (n.d.). Auguste and Louis Lumiere. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/lumiere-brothers

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@misc{filmandmediaatlas-auguste-and-louis-lumiere,
  author = {Film and Media Atlas},
  title = {Auguste and Louis Lumiere},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/lumiere-brothers},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

French inventors and manufacturers, Auguste (1862 to 1954) and Louis (1864 to 1948), who built the Cinematographe, a combined camera, printer and projector, and held the first paid public film screening at the Salon Indien du Grand Cafe in Paris on 28 December 1895. Their short actualities, workers leaving their factory, a train arriving at a station, are the founding documents of cinema.

Facts

Nationality

French 1

Defining Contribution

The Cinematographe and the first paid public film screening, Paris, December 1895 2

Cross-Tradition Connections

Milestones Credited

First Paid Public Film Screening

Source A History of Narrative FilmDavid A. Cook

Technologies Developed

Cinematographe

Source A History of Narrative FilmDavid A. Cook

Sources

1. Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.View the Source

2. A History of Narrative Film

David A. Cook, W. W. Norton, 2016

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