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  Adventures in CyberSound: Lumière, Auguste et Louis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
His destined to be famous sons Auguste and Louis were both born at Besancon (1862 and 1864) but it was in Lyon, where the family moved in 1870, that their collective fame and fortune rose.
After (Dickson and Edison's) Kinetoscope was introduced in Paris, Auguste and Louis Lumière produced a combination camera/projector, first demonstrated publicly in 1895 and called the cinématographe.
The two flowing rivers of the birth of film are considered to be Thomas Edison and Louis and Auguste Lumière.
www.acmi.net.au /AIC/LUMIERE_BIO.html   (2580 words)

  
 Institut Lumiere - Musee
Auguste and Louis Lumière probably owed their penchant for the visual arts to their father Antoine.
With their research in the realm of photography, Auguste and Louis Lumière were actually perpetuating a certain impressionistic pictorialism, which might seem paradoxical in view of the extraordinary progress they were making in the cinematographic visualisation of the world.
Gauze bandages used for burns ("Tulle Gras"), which were one of Auguste Lumière's many inventions, might be taken, retrospectively, as a metaphor of the way the world is unified through atoms of light imprinted onto film.
www.institut-lumiere.org /english/lumiere/sexposition.html   (1302 words)

  
 Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
He was later involved in the development of the Cinématographe; while Louis was chiefly responsible for the mechanism, Auguste arranged for Alfred Molteni (leading manufacturer of projection lanterns) to make the necessary lamphouses.
At the Congres des Sociétés Francaises de Photographie in July 1895, Auguste filmed the Congress members disembarking at Lyon, and a conversation between astronomer/photographer Janssen and Consul-General of Rhone, M. Lagrange; on the projection of the film the next day, both subjects delivered their lines 'live' from behind the screen.
Auguste appeared in several of the early films himself, directing the activity in Démolition d'un mur and, with his wife Marguerite and daughter Andrée, enjoying the role of family man in the proto-home movie Repas de Bébé, and again with young Andrée in Pêche aux Poissons Rouge.
www.victorian-cinema.net /augustelumiere.htm   (367 words)

  
 Louis Lumière / Louis Lumiere / director / realisateur / films / biography
Auguste was particularly sceptical and very quickly lost interest in his new discovery.
It was left largely to Louis to explore the new medium and to exploit its commercial potential.
Auguste was more a scientist, in the traditional sense of the word, but also a very competent technician.
frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_louis_lumiere.html   (525 words)

  
 LUMIERE BROTHERS FILMS - HISTORY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Ironically as we look back in retrospect in comparison to what film has developed into today, the Lumiere Brothers believed it to be a medium without a future as they suspected that people would bore of images that they could just as easily see by walking out into the street.
However, their film sequence of a train pulling into the station reportedly had audiences screaming and ducking for cover as they believed that the train itself was about to plow into the theater.
Born in the Haute-Saone District in 1862 and 1864, with Auguste being the elder, the Lumiere family eventually settled in Lyon.
www.holonet.khm.de /visual_alchemy/lumiere.html   (271 words)

  
 The Lumiere brothers presented in History section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Though Thomas Edison is often widely considered the father of “moving pictures,” French inventors Louis Lumiere and Auguste Lumiere were technologically and artistically of equal or greater importance to the development of cinema.
Auguste (1862 - 1954) and Louis (1864 - 1948) Lumiere were the sons of a millionaire car manufacturer who lived in Lyon, France.
Soon, attending the cinema was all the rage and this led the brothers to head to England, Belgium, Germany, and Holland to demonstrate their wonderful cin?matographe.
www.newsfinder.org /site/more/the_lumiere_brothers   (648 words)

  
 EXPOSITION : The Lumière villa
The Lumière villa is the last surviving evidence in Lyons of the social rise and tremendous industrial success of the painter and photographer, Antoine Lumière and of his two eldest sons, Auguste et Louis, the inventors of the cinematograph.
The photographic studio in the rue de la Barre, first housed in a wooden shed, then in a permanent building with a window and a reception room, became a fashionable place, the haunt of many artists, politicians and scientists.
Auguste and Louis, soon became partners in their father's experiments.
www.culture.gouv.fr /culture/inventai/itiinv/lumiangl/intro.htm   (1052 words)

  
 Michael Apted   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Though Thomas Edison is often widely considered the father of "moving pictures," French inventors Louis Lumière and Auguste Lumière were technologically and artistically of equal or greater importance to the development of cinema.
Born to Antoine Lumière, a noted portrait painter and vendor of photographic supplies, Louis and Auguste attended a trade school, but Louis suffered from chronic headaches and dropped out.
Their success encouraged Louis and Auguste to continue experimenting, and it was a demonstration of the Edison Kinetoscope in 1894 that inspired the brothers toward motion pictures.
journalism.wlu.edu /J338/lumiere.htm   (409 words)

  
 Auguste and Louis Lumière - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas (19 October 1862, Besançon, France – 10 April 1954, Lyon) and Louis Jean (5 October 1864, Besançon, France – 6 June 1948, Bandol), were among the earliest filmmakers.
Their father ran a photographic firm and both brothers worked for him: Louis as a physicist and Auguste as a manager.
Louis had made some improvements to the still-photograph process, the most notable being the dry-plate process, which was a major step towards moving images.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re   (807 words)

  
 Lumiere Theatre - San Francisco - Yelp
In that mail, we told him that Edouard was a grand son of a grand son of Auguste Lumiere, and that he wanted to become a producer when he is adult (he is 15 today).
We also told him in the mail that he would be in Seattle in August and wanted absolutely to fly over to the Skywalker Ranch to visit the place and say hi.
Because the Lumiere is on the outskirts of Russian Hill/Polk Gulch, the crowd is pretty diverse and sufficiently interesting.
www.yelp.com /biz/RRVEr0JLsArS2-Jae0DMqw   (2359 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Auguste & Louis Lumiere and The Rise of Motion Pictures: Livres en anglais: Jim Whiting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Amazon.fr : Auguste & Louis Lumiere and The Rise of Motion Pictures: Livres en anglais: Jim Whiting
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Along with his brother Auguste, the two men became important pioneers in making movies.
www.amazon.fr /Auguste-Louis-Lumiere-Motion-Pictures/dp/1584153652   (393 words)

  
 The Lumiere Brothers' First Films (1895)
DVD compiles 85 50-second documentary shorts made between 1895 and 1897 by French film pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
DVD offers a look at the work and life of Lumieres' contemporary.
Modern filmmakers use the Lumieres' camera in homage to the silent era.
www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=116008   (105 words)

  
 Auguste Lumiere on artnet
Find works of art, auction results & sale prices of artist Auguste Lumiere at galleries and auctions worldwide.
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 Studyarea.com's Free Essays Site - "Lumiere, Louis and Auguste"
Studyarea.com's Free Essays Site - "Lumiere, Louis and Auguste"
Studyarea.com`s Free Essay Site - "Lumiere, Louis and Auguste" [0.99989]
...viewing machine (the Kinetoscope) that displayed the marvelsrecorded to one viewer at a time.^Edison thought so little of theKinetoscope that he failed to extend his patent rights to England andEurope, an oversight that allowed two Frenchmen, Louis and Auguste LUMIERE,to manufacture a more portable camera and a functional projector, theCinematographe, based on Edison`s machine.
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