While no single person can be credited with inventing moving pictures, two French brothers – Auguste and Louis Lumière – stand out for their foresight and their important contributions. Using a film camera projector that they designed, they put on some of the earliest public film screenings and helped to define cinema. Important contributions. Using a film camera projector that they designed, they put on some of the earliest public film screenings and helped to define cinema-projector, the Cinématographe, in February 1895. Louis shot their first film, which was called La Sortie de l’Usine Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon).
