From science to entertainmet

I am surprised our mutual friend Jack has been so imprecise this time! I imagine that when he talks about cinema and Louis and Auguste Lumière, he refers to that December 28 in 1895 (technically the 19th. century but the invention was part of the movement to the 20th.) in the Salon Indien in the Grand Café in the Boulevard des Capucines. Louis and Auguste didn't try to create entertainment. They wanted to show the world theis invention: the cinematograph.

Simple scientific difusion, no business or killing time. In fact, five years later the brothers abandon de the invention. But, George Méliès, how was in the Salon Indien in that day (with our friend Jack I imagine) immediately talked to Antoine Lumière (the father of the inventors) to try to bay a cinematograph. But he didn't succeed.

George Méliès, owner of the Houdin Theatre in Paris, was a magician and an illusionist. One of those that, like Jack was mesmerized by the possibilities of the invention from the point of view of creating magic tricks and making people believe lies. Méliès films are pure theatre and magic shows. No science and seriousness like the work of the Lumière brothers.


George bought a copy of the cinematograph in England. Bad days for the patents that Edison knew how to profit!

I have slept so many years that I have dreamed almost everything that can be dreamt or filmed. New films based in old stories just want to entertain and mesmerize simple minds. The cinema exists because our retina does not work correctly.

If you have interested in the Lumière brothers experiments you have to watch their first ten films which are less than 15 minutes long all together.

I am happy you like cinema Jack, I am happy.

Let the game be played and the players roll the dice!

Carpe Noctum!