La Mer (1895)

Original title

Baignade en mer

Directed by

Louis Lumière

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

38 min

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 93 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This very short film shows the motion of the sea. It was made in France in 1895 by Louis Lumiere and is one of the earliest films ever shown to a paying audience.

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What happens

La Mer (also known as The Sea) 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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