Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- ARTE, Beall Productions, Musée d'Orsay
Keywords
- paris, france
- cinema on cinema
- universal exhibition
- art history
- cinema history
- early cinema
- french impressionism
- silent cinema
- technological evolution
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Top Cast
Vimala Pons as Self - Narrator (voice)
Bertrand Lemoine as Self - Architecture Historian
Vanessa Schwartz as Self - Art Historian
Tacita Dean as Self - Artist
Paul Perrin as Self - Painting Curator
Mark Lewis as Self - Artist
Dominique Païni as Self - Film Curator
Marie Robert as Self - Photo Curator
Top Crew
Stefan Cornic · Director
Laëtitia Pansanel-Garric · Composer
Adrien Guilloteau · Editor
Jean-Marie Nizan · Producer
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