Saturday we returned to the Grand Palais for the expo of the freres Lumiere, the brothers who invented the movies. It was a very interesting show.
This is a model of the factory which made the movie machines. The small square in the middle is showing the first movie ever made, in the place it was made.
Lots of camera types were shown, including this very early model.
A horse running in another pre-movie approach.
A 360 degree version.
A replica of the first cinema,
The machine itself.
A sampling of the earliest movies. And mostly made by their secretary, who had a talent for narrative, setting and style.
The brothers left the making of movies to others, while licensing the use of their cameras by trained technicians. The concentrated on inventing color photography techniques. These are made by covering the glass plate with colored flour that controlled the colors of the light reaching the chemicals on the glass. They were lovely.
And then home to pack for our return to the Bay Area.
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