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The Birth of Cinema

194640mMovieDocumentaryHistory

The prehistory of the cinema as we know it today, with its great inventors: Marey, Muybridge, Reynaud, Edison, the brothers Lumière and their great inventions: the kinetoscope, the praxinoscope, the chromophotograph, the film camera.

DirectorsGeorges Sadoul·Roger Leenhardt

WritersGeorges Sadoul·Roger Leenhardt

ProducerRoger Leenhardt

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