The Lumière Brothers

The Lumière Brothers were called Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean. They were both born in France. In their early years they would work in their fathers photographic shop. The boys also made improvements to that industry; the dry plate process. When their father retired they concentrated on moving images. The Lumière brothers patented the first ever portable motion picture camera, film processing unit and projector they called it the cinematographe this had 3 inventions in just 1 machine. The Brothers famously said that the "cinema is an invention without any future" - How wrong were they! The Lumière Brothers have changed everyones lives forever especially in the 21st cenutury people are still using the Lumière Brothers ideas; mobile phones with cameras and video playback, camcorders, webcams. All of these inventions may not have been around if it wasn’t for the Lumière Brothers. The Lumière Brothers films lasted just short of a minute. The camera would stay in the same position throughout the film. The Lumière Brothers also created the first ever film poster.