120 years of cinema

March 19, 1895, the Lumière brothers turned their first film, "The output of the Light Factory" in Lyon, 45 seconds they were projected for the first time to an audience through the cinematograph. An invention of the Lumière brothers that override the Kinetograph and Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope. Both camera and projector, the cinematography of Auguste and Louis Lumière so lets see movies on the big screen, collectively.

Born in 1908, Manuel de Oliveira is the only centenarian who still makes films. He explains that for him, cinema is the mirror of life, that there is no other and that being the mirror of life, it is also keeping track, a memory of life . "

With their cinematograph, including improvement of the training of the film, the Lumière brothers reproduce the movement to perfection. Their invention plays an essential role in the birth of the film industry, developed by Léon Gaumont and Pathé Charles and Emile ...

This is an industry which this year celebrates 120 years of cinema and generations of filmmakers and films that made dream millions of viewers.

An exhibition entitled "Light! The invented cinema ", dedicated to the work of the Lumière brothers, will open March 27 at the Grand Palais in Paris until June 14 to celebrate the anniversary.