Louis Le Prince
1888 – Louis Le Prince was born on Saint-Georges street in Metz, France, on 28 August 1841. In 1869 he married and the couple started a school of applied art, enabling them to become well renowned for their work in fixing color photography on to metal and pottery. In 1888 Le Prince was granted an American dual-patent on a 16-lens device that combined a motion picture camera with a projector. Later in the same year, he used an updated version of his single-lens camera to film Roundhay Garden Scene, believed to be the first motion picture on film ever made. Sadly, Le Prince's contribution to the birth of the cinema has often been overlooked, due to his mysterious disappearance in September, 1890.
Auguste and Louis Lumière
1895-The Lumière brothers were born in Besançon, France, in 1862 and 1864 and were the earliest filmmakers in history. In their younger years, the brothers worked for their father who ran a photographic firm. It wasn’t until their father retired that they began to create moving pictures. The brothers share the patent on the cinématographe, a three-in-one device that could record, develop, and project motion pictures. The first footage ever to be recorded using the cinématographe was recorded in a private screening on March 19, 1895, showing workers leaving the Lumière factory. Although the Lumière brothers were not the first inventors to develop techniques to create motion pictures, they are often credited as one of the first inventors of the technology for Cinema as a mass medium, and are among the first who understood how to use it.