Horse Trick Riders (1895)
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Tiempo de ejecución : 1M
Director : Louis Lumière
Sinopsis
In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a black uniform, demonstrates how to mount the horse then encourages and tries to assist a man in white. The man in white keeps falling, and soon it's apparent that he's an putting on a show. His pratfalls become more elaborate and stylish. The horse stands patient. The little groom laughs to see such sport. And finally, the man in white finds a comic accommodation. The story, though brief, has a beginning, middle, and end.
Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to jump into the blanket.
A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with his bare hands.
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water, causing a cloud of vapor in the process.
Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.
Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.
Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.
A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding baby his lunch, while mum is serving tea.
In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching them from the nearby pier.
Rodado en 1895 por Louis Lumière, "El Regador Regado" está considerada como la primera película de ficción de la historia del cine. La historia es tan simple como la broma que un chico le gasta a un jardinero pisando la goma cuando éste riega un jardín. En el momento en el que el segundo inspecciona la manguera para ver qué ocurre, el muchacho levanta el pie y el hombre acaba empapado, empezando la persecución para darle su escarmiento al niño. Simple, directo y efectivo. Uno de los primeros gags de la historia del celuloide, que arrancó la carcajada del entonces inocente y sorprendido público. (FILMAFFINITY)
"L'Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat" es sin duda uno de los filmes más famosos de la historia. La imagen de un tren llegando a una estación, pasando muy cerca de la cámara mientras reduce la velocidad, se convirtió rápidamente en una escena absolutamente icónica de esa curiosidad de reciente invención llamada "cinematógrafo".
El argumento de esta obra lo desvela el propio título: el film consiste en un sólo plano de los trabajadores de la fábrica Lumière saliendo de la misma tras concluir su jornada laboral. Su importancia en la historia del cine es capital, puesto que se trata de la primera película que fue proyectada comercialmente para un público. (FILMAFFINITY)
Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.
Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.
A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.
Students in Lyon.
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
The two inventors of the Bioskop, a sort of magic lantern that projected images so fast as to give the illusion of movement, bow to the camera at both sides of an empty screen. The scene was shown in continuity, at the end of the session, as if the producers and directors of the session were beading the public a farewell.
Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.
