The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art (2021)

7.2/10 • 53 min • 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.

Cast

Vimala Pons

Self - Narrator (voice)

Bertrand Lemoine

Self - Architecture Historian

Tacita Dean

Self - Artist

Thierry Frémaux

Self - Institut Lumière Director

Christian Petzold

Self - Filmmaker

Olivier Assayas

Self - Filmmaker

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