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...