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The Lumière Brothers

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Auguste and Louis Lumière were born in France in the 1860s. Their father, Antoine, was a painter who became a photographer and later started a small that made glass plates for cameras. At that time, taking a photograph was a slow and , and the struggled to make a . When Louis was only about seventeen, he developed a new kind of plate that could capture images much more quickly. The plates sold very well, and the family business soon grew into one of the largest of its kind in Europe. In 1894, their father saw the Kinetoscope, a invented in the United States by Thomas Edison's company. It showed moving pictures, but only one person at a time could watch them by looking into a box. Antoine asked his sons to something better. The brothers designed a light called the Cinématographe, which could record films, print them, and them onto a . Because it was small and was operated by turning a handle, it could be carried easily and used outdoors. On December 28, 1895, the brothers held what is often considered the world's first film screening for a paying . It took place in a under a café in Paris. Each of the ten short films lasted less than a minute and showed scenes from everyday life, such as workers leaving the family . According to a story, when the brothers later showed a film of a arriving at a station, some viewers were so shocked that they jumped out of their seats. Within months, the brothers were showing their films in cities around the world. Surprisingly, the brothers did not stay in the film business for long. Reportedly convinced that the would soon grow tired of watching moving pictures, they returned to their interest in photography. In 1907, they introduced the first of taking color photographs, which remained for about thirty years. Even so, they are remembered for bringing people together in front of a large . Film historians say that their idea of sharing moving images with an is the of the movie theaters we enjoy today.