MOVING FILMS AND THE LUMIERES BROTHERS



 Everything got very mixed up yesterday. I started out to see an exhibition called American Icons and ended up in exhibitions which  I had certainly no intention of seeing, the Velazquez and "Lumieres - Invention of cinema". This was the 120th birthday of cinema. The Lumieres Institute organized an exhibition dedicated to the star events.....I wandered around in a very dark purple environment bending over cases to look at cameras, films or read about the history. When I go home all I had taken seemed to be very trivial and certainly did not express the atmosphere of the exhibition. This is a link to what it's all about. In English and in French. Some of the cinema clips are good fun. I sat in the Indien Salon looking at the short films which were showed as the first public paying cinema. That was on the 28th December 1895. The Lumières brothers first film in 75mm was shown a the Universal Exhibition at the Grand Palais in 1990. Have a little look. You might enjoy some of the clips. However, there is no sense in showing such an exhibition without it "reading and reading and reading......"!

http://www.grandpalais.fr/fr/article/decouvrez-la-playlist-video-de-lumiere-le-cinema-invent


So where was American Icons? I asked a a supervisor and his reply was "Oh that doesn't start until Springtime! (I knew it had started on the 8th April). "Why don't you go and see the Velazquez. It's very pretty" (!!!) I looked at the huge crowds queued up outside thinking that I would need to go back and be part of the mob. "Oh no", he said. "Go straight in"......so I did?

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Michael Keane a dit…
Loved the film 'Hugo' which includes clips from those early films.
28/4/15 05:54
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