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Jour de marché à Trouville (1896)

Jour de marché à Trouville poster
Directed by
Georges Méliès
Country
France
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a very old short film from 1896 that shows a market day in the French coastal town of Trouville. It was filmed with a stationary camera and captures ordinary people going about their business. The movie is considered lost and is known only through historical records.

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What happens

Jour de marché à Trouville (em português: Dia de mercado em Trouville) é um curta-metragem mudo francês de 1896, dirigido e produzido por Georges Méliès. Registrado com o número 33 no catálogo da Star Film, o filme é atualmente considerado presumidamente perdido. No catálogo norte-americano, o título foi traduzido como Market Day (Trouville). Trata-se de um actuality film — registro documental de uma cena cotidiana filmada com câmera fixa — rodado em Trouville-sur-Mer, na Normandia, durante a temporada de verão de 1896, quando Méliès realizou uma série de filmagens na cidade. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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