History of film
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The history of film chronicles the artistic and cultural development of a visual art form that uses film technologies that began in the late 19th century, influenced by the existing screen culture of
Eadweard Muybridge's The Horse in Motion cabinet cards utilized the technique of chronophotography to study motion.
An Anschütz electrotachyscope
A frame from the Lumière brothers staged comedy film, L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895)
Georges Méliès (left) painting a backdrop in his studio
Lumière brothers
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The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière and Louis Jean Lumière, were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system and the
History of film
…advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were moving picture screenings long before the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895, which has generally been regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures. The…
Auguste (left) and Louis Lumière, c. 1895
Early advertising poster for Cinématographe screenings, by Henri Brispot, 1896
Autochrome colour picture by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud of North-African soldiers, Pas-de-Calais, France, 1915
Their father's house in Lyon houses the Institut Lumière museum.