Démolition d'un mur (1896)

Directed by

Louis Lumière

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

1 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 131 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two men knock down a wall with sledgehammers. The film shows the wall falling and the dust rising.

shortsilentstraightforwardobservationaldocumentaryhistoricalmatter-of-fact

What happens

Démolition d'un mur (Demolition of a wall) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. His brother Auguste Lumière appears, along with two other men. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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