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Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory

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Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory, released in France as La Sortie de l'usine Lumiere a Lyon, is an 1895 short film directed by Louis Lumiere, consisting of a single fixed-camera shot of workers exiting the Lumiere family's photographic factory in Lyon. It was among the very first films shown by the Lumiere brothers to a paying public audience, at a screening in Paris in December 1895 widely regarded as one of the foundational public demonstrations of cinema. Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory is widely regarded as one of the earliest surviving motion pictures and a founding work of the actuality film, a genre presenting unstaged everyday scenes.

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Release Year
1895 2
Country
France 1
Classification
Original Language
French 1
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Louis Lumière, Figures
Source Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (Wikipedia)

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Film, Media Forms
Source Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (Wikipedia)
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Original Language

French

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Originated In

France

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1. Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (Wikipedia)
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    is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière
  • Lead sentence, original language
    is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière
  • Created By: Louis Lumière, Infobox: director
    Louis Lumière
  • In Group: Pioneer Short Films, 1895 to 1903, Lead
    Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon (French: La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon), also known as Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory and Exiting the Factory, is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière.
  • In Medium: Film, Lead
    Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon (French: La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon), also known as Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory and Exiting the Factory, is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière.
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2. Wikidata: Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory
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