What inspired the Lumiere brothers in France to invent the film machine in 1895?

1895, French Lumiere brothers invented the film machine inspired by the sewing machine.

In the embryonic stage of the film, there are two different photography tendencies: one is represented by Lumiere brothers, which mainly captures the real life phenomenon and shows the trivial things around people on the screen; A fictional life picture represented by Meria mainly records the processed life picture on the stage. Along these two creative paths, it developed into two kinds of films: documentary and feature film.

These two tendencies are reflected in feature film photography, and gradually formed two different schools: painting school and documentary school. Lumiere brothers summed up their predecessors' experience and invented the world's first relatively perfect, flexible and portable portable "mobile movie machine" in 1894.

structure

This is a machine that can take pictures, show and develop. The film machine consists of a black box with a traction mechanism for intermittent motion of 35 mm film and a shutter rotation mechanism. It is equipped with a camera lens to take pictures at the frequency of 12 frames per second. When the picture is still, the shutter opens and the film is exposed. When the shutter is closed, the film moves forward to get a negative. Then take off the lens, put the negative film on the machine, paste another unexposed film, run it under the illumination of light source, and get the positive film after exposure.

The film machine is also equipped with a projection lens. After loading the film, put the machine under the light bulb, and the light beam passes through the film and lens, and the camera becomes a projector.