Letters / Auguste and Louis Lumière ; edited and annotated by Jacques Rittaud-Hutinet with the collaboration of Yvelise Dentzer ; preface by Maurice Trarieux-Lumière ; translation by Pierre Hodgson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lumière, Auguste, 1862-1954.

Contributor:

Lumière, Louis, 1864-1948.

Rittaud-Hutinet, Jacques.

Dentzer, Yvelise.

Standardized Title:

Correspondances, 1890-1953. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Lumière, Auguste, 1862-1954--Correspondence.

Lumière, Auguste.

Lumière, Auguste, 1862-1954.

Lumière, Louis, 1864-1948--Correspondence.

Lumière, Louis.

Lumière, Louis, 1864-1948.

Cinematographers--France--Correspondence.

Cinematographers.

France.

Physical Description:

333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1995.

Summary:

'Lumiere' means light, and it is altogether fitting that the Lumiere brothers - Louis and Auguste - were at the forefront of the development of what is the medium of Light - the cinema. Their letters are a unique record of the eruption of cinema on the world stage. Their appeal is not just to film fans, but to anyone interested in technology and in the history of Victorian enterprise. Written in the heat of the moment, with an eagerness to communicate the thrill of discovery, this is not so much a literary correspondence as a series of excited telephone conversations. The letters also extend into the twentieth century, ending in 1953 with the recognition that an invention initially perceived as having no commercial potential had become the preeminent art form of the twentieth century.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0571175457

OCLC:

37418135