introduction to benefits street (observational documentary)
LUMIERE BROTHERS, “the fathers of documentaries”
LUMIERE BROTHERS are also regarded as “the fathers of documentaries” more specifically, the brothers invented the idea of paying to go to cinema, many artists were making films but they went down the path of actuality rather then fiction like George mealies. They invented a three in one camera in which they could film, develop and project. This idea came from Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope in which they expanded on, as they knew more then one person could watch at ones, so they found a way to project it. They made many films all under 1 minute long, “workers leaving the factory” and “baby eating breakfast” were seen as the first documentaries, in which they began making over 2000 franks a night. They quickly began sending these cameras all over the world to get footage of cultures, people and places many people had never seen before.
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