Place des Cordeliers à Lyon (1895)

Directed by

Louis Lumière

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

44 min

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 73 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This very short film shows a square in Lyon, France. It captures the everyday movement of people and horse-drawn carriages in a single static shot.

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What happens

Place des Cordeliers à Lyon (also known as Cordeliers' Square in Lyon) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. The film formed part of the first commercial presentation of the Lumière Cinématographe on 28 December 1895 at the Salon Indien, Grand Café, 14 Boulevard des Capuchins, Paris. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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