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A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
Thierry Frémaux
- Narrator
- (voice)
Pierre Bellingard
- Self
- (archive footage)
Ernestina Bossi
- Self - Ballerina
- (archive footage)
François Clerc
- The Gardener
- (archive footage)
Benoît Duval
- The Boy
- (archive footage)
Leopoldo Fregoli
- Self
- (archive footage)
Loie Fuller
- Self
- (archive footage)
Madeleine Koehler
- Self
- (archive footage)
Marcel Koehler
- Self
- (archive footage)
Eugénie Laurent
- Self
- (archive footage)
François-Henri Lavanchy-Clarke
- Self
- (archive footage)
Andrée Lumière
- Self
- (archive footage)
Antoine Lumière
- Self
- (archive footage)
Auguste Lumière
- Self
- (archive footage)
Louis Lumière
- Self
- (archive footage)
Marguerite Lumière
- Self
- (archive footage)
Rose Lumière
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIncludes 108 films out of over 1400 made by the Lumière company.
- ConnectionsEdited from The Mechanical Butcher (1895)
- SoundtracksJavotte - Fantaisie pour un orchestre / Rapsodie bretonne opus 7 bis - Allegretto / Rapsodie bretonne opus 7 bis - Andantino, Allegretto, Allegro quasi presto, Andantino, Allegretto / Andromaque - Ouverture. Andante, Allegro / Andromaque - Prélude du 4e acte / Suite en Ré opus 49 - Prélude. Allegretto moderato / Suite en Ré opus 49 - Sarabande. Sostenuto / Suite en Ré opus 49 - Gavotte. Vivace / Suite en Ré opus 49 - Romance. Andantino cantabile
Composed by Camille Saint-Saëns
Performed by Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
Conducted by David Robertson
(P) 1993
Featured review
It is a wonderful documentary, that everyone who love cinema must watch. Lumière brothers and crew were real artists and their importance goes much beyong the already essenfial role in the machne development. While the film design is simple, just showing original short films with narration, two elements make it an amazing achievement: 1) narrated text is brilliant, it is a well humored and deeply informed lecture on the history of cinema, the role played by Lumière in it, and how the world and society they showed in movement was; 2) many awesome short films produced or made by Lumière were, for artistic or historical reasons (often for both), extraordinary, anticipating what other important moviemakers would developped and being credited for later. Well done and moving documentary.
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- Also known as
- Lumière! The Adventure of Cinema Begins
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $531,436
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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