Les Forgerons (1895)

Original title

Les forgerons

Directed by

Louis Lumière

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

40 min

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 78 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two blacksmiths work at a forge, hammering metal. It is a very early silent film from the late 1800s.

old-fashionedquietobservationalnostalgicstraightforwardhistoricmatter-of-fact

What happens

Les Forgerons (also known as The Blacksmiths) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet. 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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