Lighting Up The Streets

It is not just Parc Disneyland that has reference to 'real' people, such as imagineers and inventors, on their windows or in the streets. The Walt Disney Studios in Paris, often overlooked as somewhere more tacky and with less imagination than it's sister park, has many references to those who have been important to filmmaking.

The streets around the Partners Statue are all named in honour of such people. Let's look at one of them today - Place de Freres Lumiere.

The inscription underneath the street name reads as follows (in French, as well as English):

Louis Lumiere (1864-1948)
Auguste Lumiere (1862-1954)

The Lumiere brothers helped give birth to the movies when they presented the world's first public screening of a motion picture in Paris on December 28, 1895. The Lumiere brothers' company created more than 1,000 films using their revolutionary invention, the cinematographe.

Apologies there are no accents in this - blogger wouldn't let me for some reason!