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Auguste + Louis Lumière: Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat still 1895-1896
(from previous page) authorial narrative and personal freedom of interaction is still central to any form of interactive story-telling. As early as the 1970s and 1980s, artists and hypermedia/games pioneers like Ted Nelson, Trip Hawkins, Brenda Laurel and others raised this issue - film-makers are just beginning to grapple with this. See Brenda Laurel (ed): The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design 1990 for the essays mentioned above.
As I have said, the Lumiere’s were the European maestros of media innovation, rivalling the prodigious Thomas Edison and the ingenious Scot William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson. The Lumiere’s invented the Kinora mutoscope animation machine, the Cinematograph, the Photorama-Lumiere (for the 1900 Paris World Exposition), and their highly successful Autochrome colour photographic process that from 1905 - 1930 was the dominant colour process.