This film introduces and elaborates upon the history of the Lumière Brothers and their films. This the filmmaker does in a way that the film becomes an exciting introduction, not only to the history of World Cinema, but also to the art and craft of cinema. It shows several films Lumière Brothers had made on the same topic, while varying visual composition or the mise en scene. They obsessively film movement and locomotion of all kinds and experiment with the new medium of the moving images. At one point in the film, we them discovering for themselves, the magic of the mobile camera; and thereafter, many films are about the relationship between the mobile camera and a static world or the moving camera and a moving world. They then, combine the topics of two films in order to make one film with more complex structure. They make actuality films, newsreels, home movies, fiction, and canned plays. They made impressionistic films, as well as closed end narratives. The Lumière Brothers traveled widely and filmed many historical events and ordinary everyday events in many countries of the world. This film is an excellent teaching tool. Young and old, lay, film scholars, and studentsall enjoy this film. This film is a masterpiece and should be revived.
