Auguste Lumière
Birthday
1862/10/19
Day of death
1954/04/10 (91 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Besançon, Doubs, France
Also know as
Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière
Biography
The Lumière brothers were the first filmmakers in history. They patented the cinematograph in 1895, which in contrast to Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties. Their first film, Sortie de l'usine Lumière de Lyon, shot the same year, is considered the first true motion picture that was publicly screened on December 28, 1895 at the Salon indien du Grand Café in Paris. The event that gave birth to cinema.
Acting
(1896) Demolition of a Wall
as Himself
(1896) Radeau avec baigneurs
as Himself
(1895) Baby's Meal
as Himself
(1896) Women Fighting
as The Man
(1895) The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
as Himself
(2016) Lumière!
as Self (archive footage)
(1996) The Lumière Brothers' First Films
as Himself
(1895) Fishing for Goldfish
as Himself (uncredited)
(1895) Photograph
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(1977) ViennaFilm 1896-1976
as Self (archive footage)
(1978) Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
as Self (archive footage)