[1] At age 17, Lumière invented a new process for film development using a dry plate.

This process was significantly successful for the family business, permitting the opening of a new factory with an eventual production of 15 million plates per year.

[2] Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope inspired his and his brother's subsequent work on the cinematograph.

On the other hand, Louis was the director of all the first animated photographic views of the Lumière Society, which Auguste sometimes attended only as an amateur actor (Le Repas de bébé, La Pêche aux poissons rouges, Démolition d'un mur, etc.).

But the contract signed between the two brothers provided that they be systematically associated, both morally and financially, in all their work and discoveries.