Louis Lumière ( 1862-1954) is a French engineer who contributed with his brother in cinema industrial developpement.Extracts description :
- A wall destruction. Louis Lumière is filming an everyday moment where people are working.
- Photographic society conventioneer coming in 1885. Lumière is filming here the crowed. The people coming is well organized. People are going in the left or in the right. We can see elegance people : men with a hat and their hat woomen with a sunshabe. They seems well-off. The first man who comes is Pierre Janssen a french astronomer. He invented a photographic pistol who inspirated Etienne Jules Marey taked for his photographic gun.
We can see in the pioneer cinema that people are so different : photographers (Muybridge) , scientifics like physiologist (Marey) astronomer (Janssen), engineers (Lumière). They are eclectique. They belong to elit and they meet between congressistes.
It needs time to work on new technics, join with passionate people and have a genious mind.
Webography
- Lumière Brother in Wikipedia
- Lumière museum
