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Leaving the Factory

Original title: La sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon
  • 18951895
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1m
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6.9/10
6.8K
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Leaving the Factory (1895)
  • Documentary
  • Short
Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
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6.8K
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  • Director
    • Louis Lumière
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  • Director
    • Louis Lumière
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    • 14Critic reviews
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    • Trivia
      It was the first film ever to be projected to a paying audience.
    • Alternate versions
      Three versions of the film exist. There are a number of differences between them, such as the clothing styles worn by the workers change to reflect the different seasons the versions were shot in, and the horse-drawn carriage that appears in the first version is pulled by one horse, two horses in the second version, and no horse and no carriage in the third version.
    • Connections
      Edited into The Lumière Brothers' First Films (1996)

    User reviews34

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    8/10
    shows Lumieres' curiosity about world around them
    This one-minute film is arguably the first movie ever made. Other inventors had previously filmed actions - like Edison's motion photography of a sneeze - but the Lumiere brothers developed equipment that tremendously advanced the medium. At the time, of course, their `cinematograph' must have bewildered their peers, including their subjects. In this first instance, the brothers record employees leaving their factory, some of whom understandably struggle to hide their awareness of the camera. The Lumieres attempt to make the film more entertaining by introducing animals and a bicycle, but `La Sortie Des Usines Lumiere' doesn't nearly match the ingenuity of their later films. The most interesting aspect of this short film is the brothers' selection of a familiar working class ritual as their subject. Their choice is the initial evidence of their curiosity about all of the world's people, a quality that makes viewing their experiments immensely rewarding and fascinating today.

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    • Release date
      • March 22, 1895 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official sites
      • Catalogue Lumiere
      • Official site
    • Language
      • None
    • Also known as
      • Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory
    • Filming locations
      • Lyon, France
    • Production company
      • Lumière
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 minute
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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