Filming Years 18901900s

by zecoathediesel

Inspired from the Video Game Years. In this new series, it's just a documentary of the film industry. But instead of going year by year. It'll be decade by decade. In this series I'll be writing facts about people's favorite director, actor/actresses, and movies. I'll also be covering anything connected to film industry such as real wars, rise of television and more.

4. Lumiere Brothers

After the success of the Kinetoscope, other people saw how popular the device was and decided to also go into the film business. On February 12th, 1892, a French guy, by the name of Leon Bouly, patent a new and improved motion picture camera to which he dubbed the cinematographe. However, due a lack of money, he was not able to created his dream camera. So he sold the rights and the name to two French brothers, Auguste and Louis Lumiere. With the rights and seeing Edison and Dickson's Kinetoscope, the Lumiere brothers wanted to improve the problems with the Kinetoscope and make their own camera and projector.

One of the problems with the Kinetoscope was the weight. This was a very heavy machine so it was impossible to move the thing if you wanted to film something outside. The Lumiere brothers fixed the issue by making the camera more lighter and more portable and they also put a hand crank on the camera so now you take this camera pretty much anywhere you want and film anything you want. They tested the camera by filming at their family-owned factory in Lyon. They made 10 films total with the camera and they showed them to the public, but this time they showed their films to more than just one person at a time. With a projector combine with the camera, they first shows these films to 200 people on March 22, 1895. There films were 35mm and they ran about 16 frames per sec, which was a normal speed for films at the time. Later the brothers showed the films again at a paid public place on December 28, 1895. Thanks to the Lumiere brothers, the project would soon replace the Kinetoscopes and make way for movie theaters with projectors such as Vitascope Hall. However, unlike other directors, the Lumiere brothers didn't think that films were going to continue. They thought that films were just a fad and they would soon go away, so they never made another film again and they didn't even want to sell their invention to anyone.

Of course films are still here and of course more people would add new elements of the genre to make it more fresh and the bring a challenge as you'll see in the next chapter.