The Cinematograph: Cinema Is Born

In 1895 theLumière Brothers invented the cinematograph. This machine can film or record images in motion
  

What did the Lumière Brothers film?Quotidian activities in Paris, in1895.For instance:

-  A little boy eating
- Workers getting out of the factory.
-Builders destrpying a wall.

                        

                            

But the Lumière Brothers also filmed humorous gags. Like this:

Lumière Brothers' films are very short and limited (without colour and sound). But they are very important because they were the pioneers of cinema. Besides, these images are historic documents that permit us to know the past. Cinema also works as a historic document.