2. Edison Factory (EE. UU)
The Kiss (1896)
Serpentine Dances (1895)
Sandow (Strong Man) (1894)
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894)
Cock Fight (1896)
Cinematographer Lumière (France, 1895)
-Workers leaving the Factory
-Baby’s Lunch
-The Waterer Watered
-Arrival of a Train
-Demolition of a Wall
3. Le
Radical
“The cinematographer. A photographic wonder, a new invention which
is certainly one of the most unique things of our era, so fertile, took
place last evening in 14th, Boulevard des Capuchines before an
audience of wise men, professors and photographers. A revolution
achieved by means of projection of living and photographed scenes.
Whatever the scene thus taken, and however large the number of
individuals thus surprised in their everyday activities, you see them
again natural size, in colour [sic], with perspective, distant skies,
houses, with a perfect illusion of real life... Speech has already been
collected and reproduced; now life is collected and reproduced. For
example, it will be possible to see one's loved ones active long
after they have passed away”.
4. Le Matin:
"Imagine a screen placed on the background of a room large enough. That
screen is looked at by a crowd. On the screen appears a photographic
projection. Till here, nothing new. But, suddenly, image –natural sized or
reduced, according to the length of the scene— gets animated and
lively. It's life itself. It is motion captured by film. Photography, far from
motionless, perpetuates the moving image. The beauty of the invention
relies in the novelty and naivety of the device. When these cameras are
made available to the public, when everyone can photograph their dear
ones, no longer in a motionless form, but in their movements, their activity,
their familiar gestures, with words on their lips, death will have ceased to be
absolute".
6. Maxim Gorki:
“Before you a life is surging, a life deprived of words and shorn of the living
spectrum of colours—the grey, the soundless, the bleak and dismal life. It is
terrifying to see, but it is the movement of shadows, only of shadows...
(...)Every thing there—the earth, the trees, the people, the water and the air
—is dipped in monotonous grey. Grey rays of the sun across the grey sky,
grey eyes in grey faces, and the leaves of the trees are ashen grey. It is not
life but its shadow; It is not motion but its soundless spectre”.
7. Maxim Gorki:
“Before you a life is surging, a life deprived of words and shorn of the living
spectrum of colours—the grey, the soundless, the bleak and dismal life. It is
terrifying to see, but it is the movement of shadows, only of shadows...
(...)Every thing there—the earth, the trees, the people, the water and the air
—is dipped in monotonous grey. Grey rays of the sun across the grey sky,
grey eyes in grey faces, and the leaves of the trees are ashen grey. It is not
life but its shadow; It is not motion but its soundless spectre”.
