Lumière brothers

Hello. We are two brothers, and our names are Auguste and Louis Lumière. Our father, Antoine, was a photographer, and he loved taking pictures. We loved pictures, too. We looked at all the still photos and had a wonderful idea. We wanted to find a way to make the pictures move.

We worked together to make our big idea come true. In the year 1895, we invented a very special machine. We called it the Cinématographe. It was like a magic box because it could do three things. It was a camera to take pictures, a printer to make copies, and a movie player to show the pictures so fast that they looked like they were moving all by themselves.

We were so excited to show everyone what our machine could do. On December 28th, 1895, we had our very first public movie show. People came to watch, and they had never seen anything like it before. It was amazing for them to see pictures that could move. We showed a movie of a train coming into a station, and it looked so real that some people were startled and jumped back from the screen.

We both lived long and happy lives. Our invention, the Cinématographe, was just the beginning of something wonderful. Every time you watch a movie or your favorite cartoon, you are seeing a new kind of moving picture. We are so happy that our idea to make pictures move started a whole new way to tell stories for everyone to enjoy.