Lumière Brothers

French inventors of an early motion-picture camera called the Cinématographe. It is exactly this device from which the term "cinema" is derived. This device consisted of a single camera used for taking photographs and projecting at 16 frames per second.

Auguste Lumière (October 19 1862, Besançon—April 10 1954, Lyon) and his brother Louis Lumière (October 5 1864, Besançon,- June 6 1948, Bandol) produced the first motion picture with the title "La Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière" in 1895 (“Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory”). Their first films showed everyday life in France, as, for example, the arrival of a train or a game of cards. In 1896 they produced more than 40 movies.

In addition, Auguste Lumière was a member of the Academy of Sciences and did important research on medical and biological issues. His brother Louis was also keen on medical issues and he ran a hospital with 100 beds during WW1.

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Annuaire biographique du cinéma et de la télévision en France, en Belgique et en Af-rique du Nord. Edition complémentaire 1957. Paris: Contact Editions, 1957.

"Lumière brothers." Encyclopaedia Britannica. Britannica Academic. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2016. Web. 12 Jan. 2016. <http://academic.eb.com/EBchecked/topic/1403398/Lumiere-brothers>.

Nath, Imbert, Dictionnaire national des contemporains, Éditions La Jeunesse, Paris, 1936