Its 111 Birthday of the cinema

The story begins like this: Imagine an empty train station and after few seconds a train comes in. That's the end believe it or not this was one of the first "stories" ever captured on a movie track. Back in the ninety-five a mean 1895, two brothers Louis And Auguste Lumiere invented the Cinematograph a machine that combined the functions of camera and projector.

After they invented the cinematograph they started "testing" it, they ware filming everything that they found interesting: Buildings, Train Stations, Factories, Exotic places, People, even and a very funny army practice. On 28 of December 1985 for the first time Lumiere brothers show their invention and "movies" to the world in the basement lounge of the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris and the cinema was born.

Inventors of the Cinematograph? I don't thinks so. Actually besides the fact that this two people invented a technology to capture moments and project them, they laid the cornerstone of the cinematography. They invented many of today basic image compositions like: Close-up, Diagonal, Wide Plan, they ware first to shoot scenes with two focal points and depth of focus, first captured Egyptian pyramids, The first footage ever of a man that smokes opium, first movies with acting sequences, the best of the best for me is the first comedy ever, named: L'Arroseur arose (The Sprinkler Sprinkled), and many, many other stuff that are today basics of the movie making. So we can definitely call them pioneers of the cinema.

One story says when the "movie" L'Arrivйe d'un train а La Ciotat (The Train Story from the first paragraph) was projected for the first time it looked so realistic to the audience, and they ware afraid that the train may come out from the screen. There is another interesting story about how Lumiere brothers forgot to rewind one of the movie tracks, and when they played the "movie" to the audience, the movie was playing backward, the audience was shocked. Image how the audience was acting when they see how ruins become a wall. I bet they ware thinking that now they can (time)travel to the past

Louis Lumiere retired in 1900, he said: "The cinema is an invention without a future". If he was aware that he will invent the cinema and lay the basics of the most powerful medium today (television), maybe he wouldn't retire, but he gave us enough. So people! Next time when you'll see a movie, think of Louis and Auguste Lumiere like you think of Thomas Alva Edison when you turn on the light in your room Happy birthday cinema.

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