Biography Lumier

Together with his brother Auguste Louis, Jean Lumier went down in history as an inventor of cinema, the ancestor of the French film industry and filmmakers. Between themselves, they divided the duties in such a way that Auguste Lumier played mainly the role of the organizer and manager, and Louis was more engaged in the technical side of the cinema and invention. And this distribution is not accidental: Louis was prone to technology, having graduated from an industrial school.

At first he was engaged in photography and worked at a factory of photographs belonging to his father. So, since the year, Louis and Auguste, together with his father Antoine, established the production of gelatin photographs using silver bromide based on a technology developed by Louis in Lyon. In the first year, their factory produced thousands of photographs, and by the year workers who produced 4 million records annually had already worked on it.

Since the year, the Lumier company has also produced bromide paper. In the year, Louis was invented by a movie camera for the shooting and projection of “moving photographs”, suitable for commercial use. The device was patented and was called "cinema." The device was an improvement in the Edison "kinetograph". The first cinematic representation in the proper sense of the word was organized in Paris on December 28 in the basement of Grand Cafe on the Kapucinov Boulevard in Paris.

At the first sessions, the Lumier brothers showed scenes mainly shot in kind: “Arrival of the train to the La-Siots station”, “The exit of workers from the Lyumier brothers”, “Breakfast of the baby”, “Cutting the red fish”, “Voltyzhitka”, the staged comedy sketch “Pailed irrigation” and others. Therefore, we can say that in addition to the technical invention, the Lumier brothers belongs to the initiative of the regular release of films.

In total, they shot about fifty short tapes on various topics. Creating his films, Louis Jean and Auguste Lumier came up with many films of filming. And the brothers' movie show was accompanied by the music of a saxophone or piano. In the spring of the year, the Lumier brothers demonstrated their cinematographic film at the Paris exhibition and were recognized as the inventors of the cinema.

After that, the brothers made a world tour with their invention, visiting London, New York, Bombay. And cinema quickly spread throughout Europe. Since the year, Louis Jean Lumier has been engaged only in the production of film equipment and photographic film. A few years later, he sold patents, but continued his experiments in the field of volumetric and color cinema.

In the year, the Lumier brothers patented a way of obtaining color photography, called "Autochroma". In the year, Louis Lumier was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences. In the year, he handed over all the films shot by him with his brother to the French cinemate. In France, there is an annual Louis Lumier Award for the best documentary. Persons of the day of March 17: - Eduard Limonov Soviet and Russian writer, publicist, politician.