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The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
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The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

Oct 17, 2021
0h 53m
★ 7.2

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.

Genres

Documentary
History
TV Movie

Production Companies

ARTE
Beall Productions
Musée d'Orsay

Cast

Vimala Pons

Self - Narrator (voice)

Vimala Pons

Bertrand Lemoine

Self - Architecture Historian

Bertrand Lemoine

Vanessa Schwartz

Self - Art Historian

Vanessa Schwartz

Tacita Dean

Self - Artist

Tacita Dean

Paul Perrin

Self - Painting Curator

Paul Perrin

Mark Lewis

Self - Artist

Mark Lewis

Dominique Païni

Self - Film Curator

Dominique Païni

Marie Robert

Self - Photo Curator

Marie Robert

Thierry Frémaux

Self - Institut Lumière Director

Thierry Frémaux

Christian Petzold

Self - Filmmaker

Christian Petzold

Olivier Assayas

Self - Filmmaker

Olivier Assayas

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