Lancement d'un navire (1896)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1M
Director : Louis Lumière
Sinopse
At the launch of a ship, of which we can only see the hull, the audience moves aside.
Angelic and demonic serpentine dances from dawn of cinema. The dancer is Loie Fuller; the pioneer modern dancer. Recorded in Paris, and hand-colored frame by frame.
Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along the road becomes the target of opportunity. He falls off his bicycle. He's not hurt, but he rides back the way he came, as the fight continues.
Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park.
Panorama das fachadas dos palácios.
Auguste Lumière comanda quatro operários na demolição de um velho muro na fábrica da família.
Loïe Fuller performs a serpentine dance.
A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.
Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.
Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.
A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.
A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.
The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually accomplished by placing the camera on a moving transport, such as a boat or train.
Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouans are revolting against the young Republic and fight for the monarchy restauration. The civil war divides also the family of the Count Savinien de Kerfadec, a liberal and generous noble and a flying machines inventor.
Charles Saganne subiu na hierarquia do exército para se tornar um oficial. Em 1911, ele se tornou um tenente e, cansado da vida da guarnição, deixou a França para uma vida de aventura no Saara.
A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.
Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.
Filme que é considerado o primeiro filme de horror da história. Mostra a luta de Mefisto com um cavaleiro.
O filme contém muitos elementos tradicionais de pantomima e foi intencionalmente feito tendo em vista entreter as pessoas, mais do que assustá-los. Apesar disso, é considerado o primeiro filme de terror da história.
Um jardineiro acaba todo molhado devido uma brincadeira de criança. Primeiro filme cômico da história.
Um dos primeiros filmes da história mostrando a chegada do trem a estação de Lá Ciotat, França.