The Genius of the Brothers Lumiere

We visited Le Musée des Lumière today and discovered the genius of the Lumière brothers. Among their many successful innovations, they are most well known for improving color photography and for inventing the very first motion picture. These Lyonnais inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinématographe (“cinema” is derived from this name). In addition to the guided tour, students spent some time browsing the museum and taking a quick photo on the same spot where the first film in history was ever shot.