Task 1A - The Lumière Brothers

The Lumière Brothers, known as " Louis Jean Lumière & Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière" are the brothers from France, where apart of the first filmmakers in history and they where the ones who "patented an improved cinematograph".  They're considered and known as Filmmakers and inventors for their improvement but they started  their influence from their parents ; "Charles & Jeanne" who moved to Besancon, and as a married couple, they set up a small photographic portrait studio. After the Lumiere Brothers where born they attended the largest technical school in Lyon, but  after Augeste returned from military service, they decided to help their father create a new design for the machines to automatically create plate production and eventually, they created a very successful new photo plate called 'Equettes bleue', this is worked upon by the dozens of workers they employed for their factory.  Auguste was born on the 19th of October 1862 and Louis was born on the 5th of October 1864. Auguste died on the 10th April 1954, at the age of 91 years old and his brother, Louis died on the 6th of June 1948, aged 83.

However, their father retired in 1892 and this left the brothers to start with something new and carry on the factory. The Lumere Brothers began to create something new in their factor, 'moving pictures'.

 

 

One of their first films made was in the 1895 and was considered the origin of cinema.

It illustrates the idea of that early cinemas wouldn't have editing, no narrative, it would just be about normal, day to day events, and would consider continuous shots. From the first film you can see it follows all of these because as it opens it just films people walking out of a factory and going their own ways, while there's no narration, there's just music playing in the background. This same scene but from another angle, changing the composition but it's off each day, which continues for about 1minute and 50 seconds of the video. The clip just continues with their shot, not adding no cuts or edits to create effects like in modern society. It continues and switches scene to a few men at a table talking and drinking wine, just doing actual events as someone would do. This continues because it films a baby with their parents and they're feeding their baby, while they laugh and just enjoy their time too by drinking wine or tea (actual events). There's no edits, just import another scene and it would jump cut to the next, but this wouldn't be considered as a jump cut in editing, it's just cuts to black scene for few seconds and then next scene comes in, and you can tell it's not clear as the time gap is too wide. Throughout the film, it just continues it shot to day to day actual events, and you just see people watering crops, getting on trains, and then working again with breaking down the broken houses and this continues for a good 2minutes until the end. The movie just continues on the reel, from a long shot of the train and where the people come out the factory. However, they mainly would use cross cutting because they jump cut to another story.

 

 

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