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Auguste Lumière was born
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Louis Lumière was born
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Louis Lumière began experimenting with dryplate process
While working with his father, Louis Lumière made a name for himself as a businessman when he discovered new photography process known as the "dry plate process". -
First showing of Louis Lumière's first film in Paris
"Workers Leaving the Lumière factory" was shown it's first audience in the basement of Grand Café in Paris. This became known as the first motion picture film. -
First commericial showing of the Cinematograph
The cinematograph added on two ideas to Edison's kinetograph. It had the ability to print film and allowed for projection. Unlike the kinetograph, it was lightweight and operated by a hand crank. -
The Lumière brothers created more than 40 films in this year
These 40-some films forever influenced pop-culture with their docuementation of common french life, comedy shorts, the first newsreel, and the first documentaries. -
Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope
After Louis invented the dryplate process, he was invited to the demonstration of the kinetoscope in Paris. This invention is what inspired the Lumière brothers to create the cinematograph. -
Louis Lumière presented the Autochrome process
When the brothers returned their focus on photography, they produced the first practical photography color process, known as the "Autochrome Process". -
Louis Lumière died
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Auguste Lumière died
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Clint Eastwood won Lumière Award
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Milos Forman won Lumière Award
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Gerard Depardieu won Lumière Award
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Ken Loach won Lumière Award
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Quentin Tarantino won Lumière Award
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Pedro Almodovar won Lumière Award
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Martin Scorsese won Lumière Award
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Martin Scorsese directed the remake of the first Lumière film
Martin Scorsese remade the first Lumière film "
