Louis Lumière

Louis Lumière was born in Besançon in 1864, the son of Antoine Lumière, a painter and photographer. A pupil of the La Martinière school, he developed a dry gelatin-bromide photographic plate, sold under the name Étiquette bleue, whose success made the family business prosper. With his brother Auguste, he filed the patent for the cinématographe on 13 February 1895, having designed its drive mechanism, and himself shot the company's first films. He then devoted himself to colour photography, patented in 1903 and sold from 1907, and then to stereoscopy. He died in Bandol in 1948.

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• CinemaWorkers Leaving the Lumière FactoryLa Sortie de l'usine LumièreLouis Lumière · 1895Cinema