La Naissence du Cinema (1947)

Director: Roger Leenhardt
Country: France

This documentary film is about the invention of cinema, the first photography machines and the first devices and artifacts that projected moving images, I gotta say that it is great to acquire new knowledge and culture through visual media and this one especially is very interesting and educational because we learn how medical doctors, engineers and high-skilled workers such as Émile Reynaud, Thomas Alva Edison, Eadweard Muybridge or The Lumiere Brothers contributed to the birth of cinema and above all how a lot of mistakes were made on the road and even some hearts were broken in order to see a bunch of workers leaving a factory, but of course everything was worthed.

This material is of great value without a doubt and it should be projected on cinemas instead of the bullshit ads we see for 15 minutes every time we go to the movies nowadays, the invention of the motion pictures was made out of love and curiosity, combining chemistry, physics and a lot of effort to get magical results, sadly that is not the case today because we live in a world that is focused solely on making money and that includes the movie-industry. I recommend you to watch this short film to engage yourself in the real love for the seventh art and of course to see many of the old-school films in black and white which like this one you can see for free on the web.

The Lumiere Brothers