Lumière

American

[ly-myer] / lüˈmyɛr /

noun

Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas 1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean 1864–1948, French chemists and manufacturers of photographic materials: inventors of a motion-picture camera (1895) and a process of color photography.

Lumière British

/ lymjɛr /

noun

Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (oɡyst mari lwi nikɔlɑ). 1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean (lwi ʒɑ̃), 1864–1948, French chemists and cinema pioneers, who invented a cinematograph and a process of colour photography

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Developed by the Lumière brothers, the miraculous process involved a glass plate dusted with potato-starch granules, microscopic in size, dyed red-orange, green and blue-violet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

He also goes to Paris, where Jean Penicaut of Lumière Technology—which has explored beneath the surfaces of the Mona Lisa and Leonardo’s “Lady With an Ermine”—offers a theory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

The César Awards, Lumière Awards and Cannes Film Festival have showered Audiard’s films with nominations and prizes over the years.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

Very early films by Georges Méliès, the Lumière brothers and Alice Guy Blaché featured Fuller’s serpentine dance.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2024

“Movies can remind us of who we are or were, show us what we can be. What would the Lumière brothers think if they could walk into a theater today?”

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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