The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.
Top Cast

Vimala Pons
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Bertrand Lemoine
as Self - Architecture Historian
Vanessa Schwartz
as Self - Art Historian

Tacita Dean
as Self - Artist
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