This is an actuality film of a boat returning to dock. It is not of particular interest and is not filmed in a way which adds anything artistically. It is not bad but is very average for the period.
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Boat returning
A_Kind_Of_CineMagic9 October 2018
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boblipton4 October 2012
As with many of the better Lumiere pictures from this period, this is actually a far more experimental and interesting film than many people would recognize. The Lumieres, having come from still photography, understood composition, but they also understood, as few of their contemporaries did, the fascination of competing lines of movement. Notice the three levels of movement: the boat coming into the quay; the people milling about the quay in seemingly random movement that leaves the interior composition undisturbed and the movement of waves at the top of the frame. These films last less than a minute, yet these competing lines of movement keep the audience interested in a way that a simpler composition would not.
Retour d'une promenade en mer (1896)
Michael_Elliott23 December 2016
Retour d'une promenade en mer (1896)
You can look at the Lumiere Brothers filmmography and see that there's a very large number of films that were made early on. Clearly they were out there filming just about anything they could and this here is a rather lazy effort. Perhaps lazy is the wrong word to use but there's certainly nothing too entertaining here. A couple people are on a small boat and they throw a rope up to another group of people so that they can tie the boat down. Yeah, that's the only thing going on in this film that clocks in just under a minute. At least you get some nice views of the old boat as well as the tyep of clothing people were wearing at the time but outside of this there's not too much here.
You can look at the Lumiere Brothers filmmography and see that there's a very large number of films that were made early on. Clearly they were out there filming just about anything they could and this here is a rather lazy effort. Perhaps lazy is the wrong word to use but there's certainly nothing too entertaining here. A couple people are on a small boat and they throw a rope up to another group of people so that they can tie the boat down. Yeah, that's the only thing going on in this film that clocks in just under a minute. At least you get some nice views of the old boat as well as the tyep of clothing people were wearing at the time but outside of this there's not too much here.
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