The Lumière brothers (Auguste and Louis) were both excellent in science subjects at school and both very technically minded. They were son of Antoine Lumière, who was a well known portrait painter. He stopped his art to start a business that supplies and manufactures photographic equipment, which he was then joined by his son, Louis, who began to experiment with photographic equipment. Louis discovered a process which assisted the development of photography by developing a new "dry plate" process at the age of 17 in 1881. It boosted the business and was known as the 'Etiquette Bleue' process.
In the winter of 1894, the brothers worked on overcoming the limitations and problems of Edison's peephole Kinetoscope. The two main problems that they saw in Edison's creation was that it was too bulky, because of its weight and size it had to stay in the studio, and that because of the viewer, only one person could watch the films at once.
The brothers invented their own devise by the beginning of 1895, which was hand cranked and was much smaller and lighter than the Kinetograph. They called it the Cimematographe and it combined the camera with the printer and the projector. The film speed was mush slower than the Kinetograph which meant that there was less clatter and grinding and less film used.
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