Antoine Lumière

Antoine Lumière (born October 18, 1840 – February 10, 1904) was a French businessman and photographer, best known as the father of the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis. In 1860, he left his hometown in the Haute-Saône to establish a photography business in Besançon. By 1870, he had moved to Lyons, where he expanded his business and built an industrial plant for manufacturing photographic plates. Under his leadership, the Lumière Company became a major producer, eventually employing 300 people and producing 15 million photographic plates annually. In 1893, Antoine's sons, Auguste and Louis, took over the factory, and it was their innovations that led to the development of cinema, with the Lumière brothers' invention of the Cinématographe revolutionizing the film industry.

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  Départ en voiture

  Himself

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  Départ du Caire

  Producer

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  Partie de cartes

  Himself

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  The Card Game

  Man Playing Cards, Seated on the Left (uncredited)

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  The Lumière Brothers' First Films

  Himself - Lumières' Father, Playing Cards

• 1996The Lumière Brothers' First FilmsHimself - Lumières' Father, Playing Cards
• 1897Départ du CaireProducer
• 1897Partie de cartesHimself
• 1896Départ en voitureHimself
• 1896The Card GameMan Playing Cards, Seated on the Left (uncredited)