LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!
THE LUMIERE BROTHERS: OBJECTS & COLOR
The earliest form of motion was captured in 1895. The French inventors, the Lumiere brothers, manufactured the earliest equipment that was able to capture motion. Auguste Lumiere and his brother Louis Lumiere invented a new motion picture camera and projector that they called the Cinematographe.
They were able to invent a light weight all in one motion picture device that made movies and projected them. They figured out a way to use the camera mechanisms to play back the developed roll of film, projecting bright flights through them to display the images. They were able to project the films onto big spaces like walls or big screens making it easier for larger groups to watch the films together.
This new camera really developed film making into what it is today. I mean could you imagine a life without movies? Even a life without tv shows, Netflix or youtube. All of these things have developed through evolutions but it all started back with the Lumiere Brothers. Auguste and Louis Lumière created the film La Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière (the workers leaving the Lumiere factory), which is considered the first motion picture. Everyone was astonished with this new innovation.
RGB OR CMYK?
Cinematography started in only black and white since inventors weren’t able to come up with a method to render color onto a screen. Black and White motion pictures were around from the 1890s to the 1940s. Color was introduced to the film industry around 1940 but only came into wide use for commercial motion picture production in the early 1950s.The first color cinematography was by additive color systems such as the one patented by Edward Raymond Turner. A simplified additive system was successfully commercialized in 1909 as Kinemacolor. These early systems used black-and-white film to photograph and project two or more component images through different color filters.
Bibliography
https://www.history.com/news/the-lumiere-brothers-pioneers-of-cinema
https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/inventors-and-artists-the-lumière-brothers/