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Lumière

American  
[ly-myer] / lüˈmyɛr /

noun

  1. 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

  1. 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

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

As Washington made his way into the Grand Théâtre Lumière, he looked pleasantly confused when a photographer caught his attention by waving a shiny quartz stone at him.

From Los Angeles Times

“Filmmaking has always been driven by technology,” Aronofsky said in a statement that referenced film tech pioneers the Lumiere brothers and Thomas Edison.

From Los Angeles Times

Expedition 33 is set in Lumiere, a fictional world overshadowed by a huge monolith bearing a glowing numeral on its face.

From BBC