[This is the 500th post and it is dedicated to the first film ever screened by Auguste and Louis Lumière.]
On December 28, 1895, at Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris, Auguste and Louis Lumière projected their first screening of motion pictures. The presentation contained 10 short films and began with the Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon, a 46-second scene in which workers leave the Lumière factory.
This legendary film is featured in Aki Kaurismäki’s contribution to Chacun son cinéma, a collection of 33 short films from acclaimed directors which were made especially for the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival. In Kaurismäki’s film, deadpan foundry workers finish their shifts and silently go to a movie theatre to watch the first film ever screened to an audience.
Auguste and Louis Lumière’s Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (1895) in Aki Kaurismäki’s La Fonderie (2007).
