Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory
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Director Louis Lumiere Producer Louis Lumiere Duration Language Silent | 7/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, Short Cinematography Louis Lumiere Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 22 March 1895 (France)
20 February 1896 (UK)
22 March 1970 (Denmark TV premiere) Genres Documentary, Short Film, Silent film, Black-and-white Similar movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Dancer in the Dark , Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory , The Promised Land , The True Cost , The Closet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Employees leaving the lumi re factory la sortie des usines lumi re lyon
Workers Leaving The Lumiere Factory in Lyon (French: ), also known as Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory and Exiting the Factory, is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumiere. It is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, although Louis Le Princes 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene pre-dated it by seven years.
Contents
- Employees leaving the lumi re factory la sortie des usines lumi re lyon
- Plot
- Production
- Current status
- Sources
- References
Working men and women leave the Lumière factory, through the main gate, followed by a carriage drawn by two horses. It is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, although Louis Le Prince's 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene pre-dated it by seven years. Three separate versions of this film exist, this is the original "two horses" version.
Plot
The film consists of a single scene in which workers leave the Lumiere factory. The workers are mostly female who exit the large building 25 Rue St. Victor, Montplaisir on the outskirts of Lyon, France, as if they had just finished a days work.
Three separate versions of this film exist. There are a number of differences between these, for example the clothing style changes demonstrating the different seasons in which they were filmed. They are often referred to as the "one horse," "two horses," and "no horse" versions, in reference to a horse-drawn carriage that appears in the first two versions (pulled by one horse in the original and two horses in the first remake).
Production
This 46-second movie was filmed in Lyon, France, by Louis Lumiere. It was filmed by means of the Cinematographe, an all-in-one camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer. This film was shown on 28 December 1895 at the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, along with nine other short movies.
As with all early Lumiere movies, this film was made in 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and at a speed of 16 frames per second. At that rate, the 17 meters of film length provided a duration of 46 seconds, holding a total of 800 frames.
Current status
Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet. It has also featured in a number of film collections including Landmarks of Early Film volume 1, The Movies Begin – A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894–1913 and The Lumiere Brothers First Films.
The film has been known by a large number of alternative titles in France and the United States over the years since its production including La Sortie des Usines Lumiere a Lyon-Montplaisir, Sortie de l’Usine Lumiere, La Sortie des Usines, Les ouvriers et ouvrieres sortant de l’Usine Lumiere, Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory, Leaving the Factory, Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory, Lunch Hour at the Lumiere Factory, Dinner Hour at the Factory Gate of M. Lumiere at Lyon, Exiting the Factory, La Sortie des ouvriers de lUsine Lumiere.
Sources
References
Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory WikipediaWorkers Leaving the Lumiere Factory IMDb Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory themoviedb.org