The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.
- Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Studio: ARTE, Beall Productions, Musée d'Orsay
- Keyword: paris, france, cinema on cinema, universal exhibition, art history, french cinema, cinema history, early cinema, french impressionism, silent cinema, technological evolution
- Cast: Vimala Pons, Bertrand Lemoine, Vanessa Schwartz, Tacita Dean, Paul Perrin, Mark Lewis
