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Prologue: The Spark That Lit the Screen (Scene opens with grainy sepia-tone visuals. We see an inventor hunched over a strange machine, gears turning, light flickering.) Narrator (James Brackett – voiceover, soft yet excited):"In 1877, a man named Thomas Edison—the Wizard of Menlo Park—forever changed the world with his invention of the motion picture camera, the Kinetoscope. A box that could capture life in motion… But it would take two brothers from Lyon, France to take this flickering image and project it onto the world." (Cut to young Louis and Auguste Lumière running through the narrow streets of Lyon, chasing each other, laughing. Their father, Antoine Lumière, watches with pride.) Narrator (voiceover):"They were Auguste and Louis Lumière. And they would go on to give the world its first true movie experience." Act I: Birth and Childhood (Scene: A cozy home in Besançon, France, 1862. The Lumière family gathers around the dinner table.) Antoine Lumière (warmly):"Louis, Auguste…