Who were known as the French pioneer film makers?

Who were known as the French pioneer film makers?

Don’t you just love watching movies? Well, consider yourself lucky, because if you had lived before 1889, you could never have watched one! It was the great inventor Thomas Alwa Edison who first developed a peep-show machine to show moving pictures. But the men who actually made the films for the peepshow were two Frenchmen, Auguste Lumiere and his brother Louis Luniere. Later they patented a device which would both photograph and show films, and so they are considered to be the pioneers among film makers.

Auguste and Louis Lumiere are credited with the world’s first public film screening on December 28, 1895. They showed approximately ten shot films lasting only twenty minutes inn total. The showing was held in the basement lounge of a restaurant in Paris. It was the very first public demonstration of a device they called the Cinematograph, which effectively functioned as camera, projector and printer all in one.

Their work consisted mainly of moving images from scenes of everyday life. Their film sequence of a train pulling into the station reportedly had audiences screaming and ducking for cover, as they believed that the train itself was about to plow into the theater!