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1895 - The Dawn of Cinema

One Week, One Year
One Week, One Year
Episode • Aug 14, 2020 • 52m

In our inaugural episode, we begin our journey into film history at where it (debatably) starts, 1895! The year the Lumiere Brothers had the first public exhibition of films for an audience.

 

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--- The Beginnings of Film ---

Sallie Gardner at a Gallop

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975)

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

 

--- The Cinematographe Lumiere Presentation ---

Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory

Trick Riding

Fishing for Goldfish

The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon

The Blacksmiths

The Sprinkler Sprinkled

Baby's Meal

Jumping the Blanket

Cordeliers' Square in Lyon

The Sea

 

--- More experiments and advances ---

Annabelle Serpentine Dance

The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

The Mechanical Butcher

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