The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

October. 17,2021      
Rating:
7.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Vimala Pons as  Self - Narrator (voice)
Bertrand Lemoine as  Self - Architecture Historian
Thierry Frémaux as  Self - Institut Lumière Director
Christian Petzold as  Self - Filmmaker
Olivier Assayas as  Self - Filmmaker

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