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Lumière Le Cinéma Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brilliant invention, the cinematograph, helped to inaugurate the most beloved art form of the last 130 years. Institute Lumière director Thierry Frémaux uses Lumière, Le Cinema! to guide the viewer through over a hundred shorts—some famous, some forgotten, some never before seen—directed by Lumière and company. In the process, Frémaux illuminates how the brothers employed the camera as a creative instrument as they (and their operators) mastered framing, staging, and subject selection for quotidian and exotic microdocumentaries as well as the first ever fictional motion pictures. The result is not only a glorious re(telling) of the genesis of cinema but a profound meditation on the beautiful world captured—and the mysterious world imagined—by the Lumières.
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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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