Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895)

Original title

La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon

Directed by

Louis Lumière

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

42 min

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 372 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short film shows workers leaving a factory in Lyon. It captures a single moment of people walking out of the building.

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What happens

Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon (French: La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon), also known as Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory and Exiting the Factory, is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. It is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, although Louis Le Prince's 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene pre-dated it by six and a half years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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