Editing Auguste and Louis Lumière (section)

==Early colour photography==
{{Main|Autochrome Lumière}}
[[File:LumiereAlgerijnen.jpg|thumb|Autochrome colour picture by [[Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud]] of North-African soldiers, Pas-de-Calais, France, 1915.]]

The brothers stated that "the [[film|cinema]] is an [[invention]] without any future" and declined to sell their camera to other filmmakers such as [[Georges Méliès]]. This made many film makers upset. Consequently, their role in the [[history of film]] was exceedingly brief. In parallel with their cinema work they experimented with colour photography. They worked on colour photographic processes in the 1890s including the Lippmann process (interference heliochromy) and their own 'bichromated glue' process,<ref>[http://www.ignomini.com/photographica/stereophotovintage/Trichrome/Lumiere_Trichrome.html "Lumiere Trichrome"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911212425/http://ignomini.com/photographica/stereophotovintage/Trichrome/Lumiere_Trichrome.html |date=11 September 2019 }}. ignomini.com. Retrieved 2 January 2017.</ref> a subtractive colour process, examples of which were exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900. This last process was commercialised by the Lumieres but commercial success had to wait for their next colour process. In 1903 they patented a colour photographic process, the ''[[Autochrome Lumière]]'', which was launched on the market in 1907.{{sfn|Lavédrine|Gandolfo|2013|p=70}} Throughout much of the 20th century, the Lumière company was a major producer of photographic products in Europe, but the brand name, Lumière, disappeared from the marketplace following merger with [[Ilford Photo|Ilford]].<ref>[http://sdx.rhonealpes.fr/sdx/sribzh/main.xsp?execute=show_document&id=MERIMEEIA69000030 "City of Lyon Document"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130213145224/http://sdx.rhonealpes.fr/sdx/sribzh/main.xsp?execute=show_document&id=MERIMEEIA69000030 |date=13 February 2013 }}. sdx.rhonealpes.fr. Retrieved 2 January 2017.</ref>