Antoine Lumière
Acting
Biography
Antoine Lumière (born October 18, 1840 – February 10, 1904) was a French businessman and photographer, best known as the father of the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis. In 1860, he left his hometown in the Haute-Saône to establish a photography business in Besançon. By 1870, he had moved to Lyons, where he expanded his business and built an industrial plant for manufacturing photographic plates. Under his leadership, the Lumière Company became a major producer, eventually employing 300 people and producing 15 million photographic plates annually. In 1893, Antoine's sons, Auguste and Louis, took over the factory, and it was their innovations that led to the development of cinema, with the Lumière brothers' invention of the Cinématographe revolutionizing the film industry.
Known For
A collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of-the-century France, narrated by Bertrand Tavernier.
The Lumière Brothers' First Films
Three people playing cards.
Partie de cartes
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Départ du Caire
Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.
The Card Game
Three women get in a horse-drawn carriage, as servants load luggage on the roof, before it pulls away.