Lumiere brothers

Creator of Kodak cameras

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Cinematographe Lumiere (1896) poster, French

Auguste + Louis Lumière (Cinema)

Sotheby's is auctioning the first-ever film poster, designed by artist Henri Brispot for the first film screening, from the Lumière Brothers.

Released in 1896, L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat is one of the earliest examples of movie-making we have – the 50-second silent short, which shows a mail train pulling into La Ciotat station, seems humdrum by today's standards, but would have wowed 19th century crowds seeing moving pictures for the first time.

The Lumire Brothers pioneered cinema single-handedly transforming afamily business on the brink of bankruptcy into the world's greatest invention.

The Lumiere Brothers, Louis Jean is a photograph by Everett which was uploaded on December 7th, 2011. The photograph may be purchased as wall art, home decor, apparel, phone cases, greeting cards, and more. All products are produced on-demand and shipped worldwide within 2 - 3 business days.

Cinematographs were a popular pastime and attraction across the globe. Historians dispute over whether the Lumière brothers or Léon Bouly were the inventors. Several different versions of the camera exist, and it is sometimes associated with the birth of cinema or a new age of film. The Lumière brothers brought their Cinematograph as far as China and India and showed their work to people of different class and social standing.

Lumiere Brothers