As shown by a new restoration of some of the 1,400 shorts that the pioneers of early cinema filmed, the Lumières were true artists as well as inventors
On strips of celluloid 17 metres long and 35mm wide, the Lumière brothers made some of the world’s first and most famous films. But while many cinephiles could tell you that the pioneering inventors of the Cinématographe filmed trains entering stations and workers leaving factories, the true scope of their work is often overlooked. The Lumières were responsible not just for a successful invention but a huge number of films, which experimented with techniques that were necessarily new and roamed across a rapidly changing landscape, from their factory in Lyon and across Europe to America and east Asia.
Auguste and Louis Lumière were photographers by trade, who were inspired to attempt moving pictures after seeing a demonstration of Edison’s Kinetoscope, a “peephole...
On strips of celluloid 17 metres long and 35mm wide, the Lumière brothers made some of the world’s first and most famous films. But while many cinephiles could tell you that the pioneering inventors of the Cinématographe filmed trains entering stations and workers leaving factories, the true scope of their work is often overlooked. The Lumières were responsible not just for a successful invention but a huge number of films, which experimented with techniques that were necessarily new and roamed across a rapidly changing landscape, from their factory in Lyon and across Europe to America and east Asia.
Auguste and Louis Lumière were photographers by trade, who were inspired to attempt moving pictures after seeing a demonstration of Edison’s Kinetoscope, a “peephole...
- 5/23/2016
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
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