The lumiere brothers were called Louise and Auguste. Auguste came up with an invention in 1894 called the cinematographe. This device was smaller and lighter than the kinetograph. This cinmeatographe photographed and projected a film of a speed of 16 frames per second. This device was much slower than Thomas Edison's device. His device did 48 frames per second, this meant that the film was less noisy to operate and used less film to use.
George Melies
George Melies was a french illusionist and a famous filmmaker for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of a cinema.Accidently George Melies discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896. This was one of the first filmmakers to use a multiple exposures,time-lapse photography, dissolves and hand painted colour.The films that he did were a trip to the moon in 1902 and the impossible voyage in 1904.
Edwin Porter
Edwin porter starting doing motion picture work in 1896. Edwin porter was a film pioneer, he is famous for being a producer, director, studio manager and was a cinematographer. Edwin porter created over 250 films, his most famous film is Jack and the beanstalk in 1902.He developed an interest in electricity at a young age and shared a patent at the age of 21 for a lamp regulator.
D.W. Grifths
D.W. Grifths was a famous director, he was mostly remebered by directing the film the birth of our nation. Grifths began making short films in 1908 and he released his ever first feature film Judith of Bethulia in 1913. The film birth of our nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques and it's immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film in the untied states. Ever since the film was released, the film has been highly controversial for it's negative depiction of an african americans and the Ku Klux Klan.
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