00:03When Lumière turned the crank of a beautifully crafted metal and wooden device,
00:09the technical achievement of his invention made history.
00:14130 years ago, the Lumière brothers invented the cinématograph.
00:20Everything was already there.
00:22Comedy, drama, actors' performances,
00:25children's faces, tracking shots by boat
00:28and panoramas by streetcar.
00:34100 unseen newly restored Lumière shorts
00:38offer an intact glimpse of the world at the turn of the century.
00:42This extraordinary return to the origins of cinéma
00:46also shows that the journey never stopped
00:49and the adventure continues.
00:59Cinema began here, the same as we will always know it.
01:02Cinema began here, the same as we will always know it.
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