La Pêche aux poissons rouges (1895)

Original title

La pêche aux poissons rouges

Directed by

Louis Lumière

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

43 min

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 72 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short silent film from 1895 shows a person fishing for goldfish. It is one of the first films ever shown to a paying audience.

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What happens

La Pêche aux poissons rouges is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent actuality film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. It was filmed in Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France. Given its age, this short film is in the public domain and 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 Capucines, Paris. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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