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Les Freres Lumière

netbros — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:14:13 -0800

The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean, were among the earliest filmmakers. Their father, Claude-Antoine Lumière, ran a photographic firm and both brothers worked for him. It was not until their father retired in 1892 that the brothers began to create moving pictures. They patented a number of significant processes leading up to their film camera — most notably film perforations as a means of advancing the film through the camera and projector, and the cinématographe. Their first public screening of films at which admission was charged was held on December 28, 1895 in Paris. This history-making presentation featured ten short films, including their first film, Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory). Each film is 17 meters long, which, when hand cranked through a projector, runs approximately 50 seconds. Lumière Brothers - The Little Girl And Her Cat Lumière Brothers - The Serpentine Dance Lumière Brothers - Indochina: Children Gathering Rice Lumière Brothers - Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog Lumière Brothers - Sky Scrapers of New York City first films video review Lumière Brothers still photography - (previous MeFi post)

Ghost Bottle: No Maintenance Required

[NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:50:47 -0800

Ghost in a bottle, anyone? Might want to read this first (RLS PDF). Previously on MeFi.

Trees of green & red

growabrain — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:00:46 -0800

Happy Thanksgiving to all. (YT. Click on bottom corner for full screen)

Video vigilante stalked by cops

LordSludge — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:32:12 -0800

On September 7, Brett Darrow drew national attention when he recorded video of an abusive police officer threatening to lock him up on "made-up" charges. The police officer was subsequently fired.

Now, the local police are staking out his home. The tape from the police cruiser mysteriously disappeared, but fortunately for Darrow, he had previously installed cameras after receiving a traffic ticket he felt was undeserved. This is not the young man's first run-in with the law. Last year, Mr. Darrow had a similar encounter at a police roadblock. Afterwards, he was the subject of posts containing threats of retaliatory harrassment and death on St. Louis CopTalk, a unofficial local police messaging board.

god damn how good at animation french students are.

6am — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:13:22 -0800

Another fucking elephant post. This one however is followed up by a link to inhumanly good animation done by another French dude at the same company.

Louis Farrakhan, charmer

Astro Zombie — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:10:24 -0800

Sure, Louis Farrakhan talks about UFOs. And, yes, some people think he had a hand in the death of Malcolm X. And maybe a case can be made that he isn't the most tolerant of men. Be that as it may, he was a suburb calypso singer.

cute, cuter, umm...

Item — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 09:14:38 -0800

The strange cat-world of Louis Wain. Wain's cat drawings, once cute, took an interesting turn later in life.