Léon Gaumont
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Léon Ernest Gaumont was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry. He founded the world's oldest operating film studio, Gaumont, and worked in par
Gaumont in June 1920
1930's Gaumont Kalee film Projector, Cinema Museum London
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
Léon Gaumont
…in 1897 inaugurated a motion picture production business. Initially, Gaumont made films for the picture arcade business such as those operated by the Lumière brothers, but it was under the direction of Alice Guy (Gaumont's secretary - First Woman Film Director), that they began making short films based on narrative…
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.