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Louis Lumière
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Card Party
For many, cinema began on December 28, 1895, with the first public projection of short films like EXITING THE FACTORY, ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN and this film, CARD PARTY, by Louis and Auguste Lumiere. But these iconic films also existed in alternate versions, sometimes with each frame colored by hand (as it is in this instance).Start your free trial to watch
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Transformation by Hats
The Lumières stay inside the studio for this delightful portrait of a quick-change artist. Our man fleshes out six distinct costumes in under a minute: from affable ticket-taker to haughty sea captain, long-nosed blowhard to assured financier. Usually noted for their documentary subjects, here the Lumière...Start your free trial to watch
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Exiting the Factory
As the first short work shown at the first public film exhibition on December 28th, 1895, WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY is frequently cited as cinema’s Big Bang. This alternate version pictures employees leaving a different gate from a lower camera position. The modification to the iconic composition...Start your free trial to watch
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Poultry-Yard
In this Lumière short, the picturesque view of two country girls feeding chickens is enlivened by the unpredictable movement of the animals sweeping the lower part of the frame. A woman watches in the background but quickly exits the shot (perhaps an early evidence of direction).Start your free trial to watch
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New York: Broadway at Union Square
An 1896 street view of New York shows a metropolis teeming with activity. The camera centers on two police officers directing pedestrians before a constant flow of trolleys (three go by in forty seconds). In the background, we see horse-drawn buggies and buildings under construction. A newsboy wanders into...Start your free trial to watch
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Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
One of the finest examples of the Lumières’ dynamic staging of documentary action, CARMAUX: DRAWING OUT THE COKE employs contrasting angles and depths in picturing a factory’s routine. Workers in the foreground spray and rake a steaming brick of coke as it emerges for a smelter while men in the background...Start your free trial to watch
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Swimming in the Sea
A woman and several young children sprint a narrow jetty to dive into the waves. The land is behind us; the lines of the jetty and horizon in harmonic counterpoint. Like most of the early Lumière shorts, it’s an actuality but this one has the lyrical texture of a daydream.Start your free trial to watch
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New York: Brooklyn Bridge
Trolleys interrupt our vision of the distant Brooklyn Bridge, still relatively new when this film was shot, before rumbling on towards its archways. Though the film initially appears an incidental actuality, its bookended open views of the landscape reveal a careful design.Start your free trial to watch
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Dragoons Crossing the Saône
Several tiers of shirtless dragoons ford a river with their horses in this amusing Lumière short. The riders enter the frame in saddle but don’t stay there for long. Infantrymen across the river are distant enough to proceed unaware of the filming in progress.Start your free trial to watch
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Loading a Boiler
Shipmates walk a ladder running down a tall boiler in this early Lumière short. Wittily framed so that the climbers scale the whole length of the frame, the composition contrasts the limber movement of the workers with the immobility of the grand machine.Start your free trial to watch
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Promenade of Ostriches
Belle Époque Paris comes to life in this Lumière short filmed at the Paris Botanical Gardens. The titular ostrich leads the way, though we also see children riding atop camels and elephants. On the periphery, a couple appears deep in conversation and a man runs in the direction of the camera. The range of...Start your free trial to watch
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Children Digging for Clams
Children with shorts and dresses hiked above the knee drag their nets through shallow water in search of shellfish. Adults look on in prosperous dress while more distant figures walk the horizon. Each frame of this Lumière film suggests a developing impressionist painting.Start your free trial to watch
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Arab Cortege, Geneva
An early film document of international relations, the subject of this Lumière short exceeds its title. The promised processional of Arab dignitaries walks by the camera at the outset but what of the African men who pass on the other side of the street? A crowd of gawking Swiss men and women in the...Start your free trial to watch
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Arrival of a Train
An alternate and arguably more dynamic version of ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN, the famous Lumière short that inspired the myth of an early cinema audience ducking the image of an oncoming locomotive. In this version, the train runs on a left-right diagonal and far more passengers disembark upon the open platform....Start your free trial to watch
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Recent Reviews
New York: Brooklyn Bridge
interesting historicly
Chicago Policemen's Parade
Requirement: every cop must sport a mustache!
Arrival of a Train
Everyone (men mostly) had a mustache!
Chicago Policemen's Parade
Wow..the cops looked scary and mad. My guess is that they were not too worried about bashing heads in whenever they wanted!