The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art (2021)

10/17/2021 (FR) • 53m

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Vimala Pons

Self - Narrator (voice)

Bertrand Lemoine

Self - Architecture Historian

Vanessa Schwartz

Self - Art Historian

Tacita Dean

Self - Artist

Paul Perrin

Self - Painting Curator

Mark Lewis

Self - Artist

Dominique Païni

Self - Film Curator

Marie Robert

Self - Photo Curator

Thierry Frémaux

Self - Institut Lumière Director


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

paris, france

cinema on cinema

universal exhibition

art history

cinema history

early cinema

french impressionism

silent cinema

technological evolution

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