Article about Lumiere's factory in Burlington, VT

[c.d.ewen]

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont...sGOfxKQCUxTy3Nl2RJkGjCBzkXio5Ev8Eg4F_EK2EWr8U

And a local TV report:

https://vermonthistory.org/lumiere-brothers-autochrome-photography

Charley

 

[Sirius Glass]

Thank you. As a teenager I used Lumiere film.

 

[Bob Gathany]

Thanks. My grandmother attended the Southern School of Photography in McMinnville, TN in 1912 and they were doing color photography with autochromes at the time.

 

[jvo]

Thanks. My grandmother attended the Southern School of Photography in McMinnville, TN in 1912 and they were doing color photography with autochromes at the time.

welcome aboard photrio...

jvo

 

[bdial]

Thanks for posting this, for me, Burlington isn’t all that far away, it would make a good day trip.

 

[Tel]

Eminently cool. Thanks to a recommendation from a Photrio member, I just read Reese Jenkins' book Images & Enterprise. Reading it, you realise that the photochemical industries had gone global before the 20th century. Eastman was sourcing materials from Europe and his manufacturing and retail operations had a foothold worldwide by 1912. It only makes sense that the Lumiéres might expand into the US for similar reasons. The language angle is interesting, too--it reminds me of Ubisoft's expansion of its game-design studios into Montréal early in this century.

Edit: It occurs to me that a trip there would be a serious optical learning venture. Imagining the film factory while framing up through the bottom of a beer glass.