Lumière Cinématographe

[@andy68916]

This is gold for film history nerds. I've read that the Lumiere brothers also played the movies backwards to impress the crowd. Does that seem practical with the device?

[@jmalmsten]

If you just thread it backwards in the projection setup, it will play in reverse, but the image will be upside down. If you know you will do backwards playback, you can counteract this by just having the camera upside down during filming. That way, when you thread the film backwards during projection, the image will be right side up and the motion will go backwards. I guess you could also film it like normal and during printing have one of the spools go backwards... but I have no idea if that's feasible on these very early cinematograph machines. That Bipack magazine probably only can run both spools in the same direction. I have heard Nolan talk a lot about how hard they had to work to get the IMAX cameras to record backwards for Tenet. But I am a bit confused about that as... well, the trick of just having the camera upside down should really work on any film camera provided it doesn't rely on gravity for the mechanism to work.

[@johannes914]

Great video.

[@Piratesjunior]

Wow it hard to find the review of the cinematographe because it rare to have it in your collection.

[@Chiaroscuro1991]

Go for it Todd! For a couple of years Mark Osterman and Nick Brandreth, historic process specialists at George Eastman Museum, taught how to make the gelatin emulsion, coat the film stock, slit, perforate and shoot 35 mm film with a hand crank cine camera.

[@snaididksnd]

I would have loved learning how to do that. I assume they no longer teach that?

[@chrisphilbrook5946]

I love this video. Does anyone have a list of what films were shown on it? My Google-fu isn't helping much. I know The Hat Trick was one of the earliest, but is there a list somewhere? Or does anyone have some education they share with me? (writing a book, and need some research help) Thanks!

[@davestelling]

Ingenious, fascinating, thank you...

[@bahet1061]

So, I was trying to figure out how to pronounce Cinématographe. I have figured it out. It is pronounced: Cine - mat - o - graph.

[@sundarrajan8985]

😍

[@imaginationworkshopstudio]

Oh! THE KISS!

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[@TheStockwell]

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[@imaginationworkshopstudio]

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[@Laura-fw1jo]

False ! Edison , not Lumiere !! Lumiere brothers preceded Edison.

[@bigdiddy25]

their dad went to an exhibition of Edison in Paris and then they thought to make it more accessible with less weight and frames per second so they were more business oriented

[@snarky_user]

Smut.