1. Ten films on the film’s birth day

On December 28, 1895, at Le Grand Café Capucines, 4 Avenue Capucines, Paris, ten video works are about to be shown. People are waiting enthusiastically, not knowing what will happen. The lingering fragrance of coffee envelops the dim air, a beam of light flew over the crowd, knocking on a door on a distant wall, and then, one after another, vivid characters came out from the door...

This is the first work of the Lumière brothers: "The Gate of the Factory", which is 46 seconds long. The workers walked out of the factory of the Lumiere brothers, someone stepped out of a bicycle at the side door, and then a carriage came out from the door. The people in front of the camera did not notice that there was a machine recording their every move, everything was as usual and vivid as a documentary. That day, the Lumière brothers also screened nine other works:

"Watering the Gardener", 49 seconds in length:

This is the earliest comedy in film history. The little boy stepped on the water pipe secretly, and the gardener went to check the faucet. As soon as the boy raised his foot, the gardener's hat was washed into the sky by the water. Later, the gardener chased the boy several times and caught him and gave him a spank.

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Mable 2022-03-15 09:01:07

This is the beginning of everything! !
Merl 2022-03-24 09:03:24

Tarkovsky: I still can't forget that genius movie released in the 19th century, the source of all movies - "The Arrival of the Train". This well-known film by Lumiere was nothing more than the invention of the camera, film, and projector. The work is only half a minute long and depicts a section of the platform under the sun, with gentlemen and ladies walking back and forth, and the train coming directly to the camera from the depths of the scene. As the train approached, there was a commotion in the theater, and people fled. It was at this moment that the movie was born. It's not just a matter of technology, or a new way of interpreting the world, but the birth of a new aesthetic principle. This principle is that, for the first time in the history of art, for the first time in the history of culture, human beings have found a direct way to preserve time. At the same time, this time can be projected onto the screen countless times, reproducing and returning to the time gone by. Humans get a model of real time. Today, time, once seen and recorded, can be permanently (in theory, permanently) engraved in a metal box.