Lumiere brothers
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the lumiere brothers famously did "A Voyage To The Moon"
one of the earliest examples of animtion.
They were also responsible for the famous film of a train coming towards the camera that scared the shit out of audiences.
However they never made a full length feature as we would know today, and their experiments in narrative coincided with the likes of Thomas Edison in the United States.
Most of their early narrative films involved setting a camera up and filming a stage play. No cuts, just one point of view.
It wasn't until the Soviets experimented with montage and juxtaposition, such as VI Pudovkin (i think) and famously Eisenstein, that editing as part of Cinema was developed. The importance of photography was pushed by the German Expressionist cinema (Fritz Lang, FW Murnau) , as well as Hollywood pioneers who placed emphasis on composistion of the frame (DW Griffiths for example, and Cecil B De Mille)
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