biography
pronunciation:
[lümyair]
| biography:
| Chemists, born in Besançon, NE France: Auguste (Marie Louis) Lumière (1862–1954) and Louis (Jean) Lumière (1864–1948). Manufacturers of photographic materials, in 1893 they developed a cine camera, the cinématographe, and showed the first motion pictures using film projection in 1895. They also invented the Autochrome screen plate for colour photography in 1903, producing the first film newsreels, and the first ‘movie’, La Sortie des usines Lumière (1895, trans Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory). |
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