Lumiere Brothers- The Lumiere Brothers were among the first filmmakers in history, and although their work appears relatively simple in today’s standards, it still stands as an extremely important moment in the development of modern cinema as we know and take for granted today. One of these such moments was the Cinematograph, which was a big step up from the Kinetoscope in many ways, one of them being that the Kinetoscope now allowed multiple people to view it, instead of being restricted to only one person like the kinetoscope did. One of their other big contributions to the history of cinema were the many short films that they produced, the most notable being “Workers leaving the Lumiere factory in Lyon” (1895) and “The Gardener” (1895), and although these short films may seem relatively primitive and simple when viewed from a modern perspective, they are so important as they mark the first short films to ever be made, along with Louis Le Prince’s Roundhay Garden scene (1888). The reason these shorts films are also important is because they provide a snapshot of what life was like at that time, and provides a fascinating glimpse into a world which would otherwise have been lost without valuable historical documents like the shorts films.