Auguste and Louis Lumière

The featured documentary ‘Side by Side’ was an enjoyable, informative documentary that discussed the history of the film industries use of emulsion film and the cautionary switch-over to the new digital movie format. Beginning in the late 1800’s with continued development of emulsion roll film by Eastman and the pioneering photography work of Edweard Muybridge and Louis Le Prince the advent of capturing and projecting moving images was at hand. The documentary covers the important developments in the economic and industrial aspects of the film industry, specifically as pertaining to movies and Hollywood in general. Presenting a persuasive argument for the adoption of the new digital medium while extolling the philosophical and existential advantages of traditional emulsion process film. As a medium the film industry, in terms of a representative communicative medium, is without equal. Presenting an environment where multiple individuals can come together to share an interpretive event. While still images had been debuted in the early 1830’s they were small and limited to a ‘personal’ experience of typically one or two ‘viewers. With the advent of the…

The Tree of Life is a subtle film that intricately links together the world while discussing vast concepts. One such concept, the way of nature, is personified through Brad Pitt’s character; he is a man who acts in primal animalistic ways, and consistently lets these emotions get the better of him. This motif has been explored in many films prior to Terrence Malick’s masterpiece and previous directors’ efforts by no means come close to the beauty of Malick’s film. Many of the films of the…

Auguste Lumiere and Louis Lumiere were two brothers who worked together in developing the first motion picture. The oldest brother, Auguste Lumiere was born on October 19, 1862 and Louis Lumiere was born on October 5, 1864 in France. They gained inspiration from their father, Antoine Lumiere, as he ran a business of manufacturing and supplying photographic equipment. In addition both brothers attended Technical School as they were really bright in the science field. Since the Lumiere brothers…

Pictures by The Lumiere Brothers With the invention of the Cinematographe, Auguste and Louis Lumiere were the pioneers to hold one of the first screenings of, also, the first motion picture in the world, which also gives birth to the implementation of charging for admission to which we have until today. In Paris, December of 1895, the first screenings of the Brothers’ movie was held at the “Salon Indien du Grand Café”. Salon Indien was in fact, a rather small sized hall that allowed about a 100…

projecting moving images was pursued all over the world, but cinema was born in France. The world’s first screening of a motion picture was in the Grand Cafe in Paris, on December 28th, 1895. It was a series of ten films made by the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere, including their first ever film, Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory). This was done with Léon Bouly 's cinématographe device, the rights to which had been purchased by the Lumiere brothers. From…

Soon after the invention of photography, people began to speculate what it would be like to capture moving images. Early on, the idea was pursued by scientists wishing to study motion through photography. There were several innovators around the world in the 1800s, when cinema technology began: among them Thomas Edison, Louis and Auguste Lumière, Georges Méliès, and many others. Eadward Muybridge was one of the first to use photographs to capture motion through an experiment to see if a horse…

return of profit. The technology behind movies had a long evolution. It first started with the invention of the photographic gun camera. This camera was used by Etienne- Jules Marey and Edward Muybridge. These men worked on increasing the proficiency of the camera. Muybridge expanded to 24 cameras, and Marey created a camera that could take 12 photographs on one plate. These two men helped create the first motion picture camera. Later, a man named Thomas Edison and his assistant, William K.L.…

The Firebird . She was widely acclaimed for her dance techniques, as well as her ability to express fierce emotion through movement . Even after she retired from dance, Karsavina was still very evolved in the ballet community. She acted as the Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Dancing from 1946 until 1955, as well as also coaching and advising for the Royal Ballet . Meyer created this photograph using the autochrome technique. The autochrome was invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere on May…

Schulze, a German physicist, found that silver salts turn dark when exposed to light. Around fifty years later Carl Scheele, a Swedish chemist, demonstrated that the changes caused in salts by light could be made permanent by chemical treatment. However none of these factors were not applied to photography until the 1830’s. In 1826, Joseph Nicephore Niepce, a French inventor, found a way to produce a permanent image inside a camera obscura by coating a metal plate with a light-sensitive chemical…

camera an instrument of evidence, and then we will be questioning those evidences to question the credibility of the camera. The photographic camera was seen as an instrument of evidence as at the very beginning people thought that we couldn’t fake a photograph. It was such a revolutionary media through which we saw exactly what we see with our real eyes. At the very beginning of photography, photographic manipulation wasn’t a big thing yet, so most of the pictures were as they were taken,…