Auguste And Louis Lumière

Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862, Besançon, France – 10 April 1954, Lyon, France) Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864, Besançon, France – 6 June 1948, Bandol, France). Les Frères Lumière, the first filmmakers in history of cinema, were engineers and industrials, pioneers in photography. They held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in 1895. This first screening took place in Paris, at the "Society for the Development of the National Industry", in front of an audience of 200 people, among which Léon Gaumont, director of the Comptoir de la Photographie.