FRANCE: OPEN AIR PREMIER OF FILM BY LUMIERE BROTHERS MARK CENTENARY OF FRENCH CINEMA.

Record ID: 646267

  • Title: FRANCE: OPEN AIR PREMIER OF FILM BY LUMIERE BROTHERS MARK CENTENARY OF FRENCH CINEMA.
  • Date: 27th December 1995
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (DECEMBER 27 AND 28, 1995) (REUTERS TV - ACCESS ALL) (DECEMBER 27) 1. GV EXT. HOTEL SCRIBE WITH NOTICE BOARD ANNOUNCING 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST SHOWING OF LUMIERE BROTHERS FILM 0.04 2. MCU BANNER/ PLAQUE COMMEMORATING START OF CINEMA/ ZOOM TO HOTEL (3 SHOTS) 0.22 3. SV INT. HOTEL SCRIBE'S BAR DES LUMIERES WITH PICTURES OF AUGUSTE AND LOUIS LUMIERE/ CU PHOTOGRAPH OF BROTHERS (2 SHOTS) 0.30 (DECEMBER 28) 4. MCU THIERRY FREMAUX, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF LUMIERE BROTHERS INSTITUTE TALKING ABOUT FIRST SHOWING OF LUMIERE BROTHERS FILM AT A COST OF ONE FRANC TO THE PUBLIC (FRENCH) 1.01 (DECEMBER 27) 5. SLV PROJECTOR/ GV INT. INDIAN ROOM (NOW RENOVATED) (3 SHOTS) 1.10 (DECEMBER 28) 6. GV EXT. TROCADERO ESPLANADE BY NIGHT 1.16 7. GV EIFFEL TOWER, NOTICE BOARD SAYING WELCOME TO THE SECOND CENTURY OF THE CINEMA 1.21 8. SV FRENCH CULTURE MINISTER PHILIPPE DOUSTE BLAZY INAUGURATING THE EVENT 1.27 9. GV HUGE SCREEN WITH LUMIERE BROTHERS FILM CLIPS 1.39 10. GV PANS CROWDS WATCHING 1.43 11. GV SCREEN 1.56 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 11th January 1996 12:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
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  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA6XHE5UAVPZAD8GORF6HECAZGQ
  • Story Text: The world's first projection of moving pictures for a paying audience took place in Paris 100 years ago on Thursday (December 28).

    The first showing was of films by the Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis, and it was organised by their father, Antoine, in the Indian Room of the Grand Cafe at the Hotel Scribe.

    The Grand Cafe was regularly visited by famous writers and musicians such as Oscar Wilde, Jules Vernes, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust and Verdi.

    The Lumiere brothers' cinematograph, a combined camera and projector, operated at 16 frames per second.

    The artistic director of the Lumiere Brothers Institute, Thierry Fremaux, said that the 33 spectators who turned up to see the movies each paid just one franc.

    The next day, 2,000 people rushed to the Grand Cafe to discover cinematography.

    On Thursday, French Culture Minister Philippe Douste Blazy officially unveiled a giant screen at the Trocadero in Paris.

    From Thursday until Monday (January 1) people will be able to see several movies made by the Lumiere brothers, who wanted such a screening for the 1900 international exhibition in Paris but found it technically impossible.


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