Auguste and Louis Lumière : inventors of the Les frères Lumières Auguste and Louis Lumière : inventors of the cinématographe (1894), which allowed images to be projected for a mass audience, unlike Edison's kinetoscope, which could only be viewed by one person at a time through an eyepiece. First Films : La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon (1895) L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (1895)
First Movie Poster - First Comedy L'Arroseur arrosé
French cinéma today : -Paris boasts the greatest density of movie theatres. -Hundreds of annual film festivals, including the Festival de Cannes - Les Césars is the annual awards ceremony for French cinéma. -Highly subsidized industry in France.
(Tournefeuille/Toulouse) Un cinéma d'arts et d'essai"...Qu'est-ce que c'est? -Movie theaters where only certain films may be shown and a certain etiquette is observed. - Ticket prices are typically less expensive than at large chains. - The film houses receive subsidies for their promotion of the arts. Examples : Utopia (Tournefeuille/Toulouse) Le Méliès
Roman Polanski : Naturalized French Who's Who? Directors : Luc Besson Michel Gondry Roman Polanski : Naturalized French Truffaut Actors/Actresses : Marion Cotillard Audrey Tautou Brigitte Bardot Gérard Depardieu Jean Dujardin Juliette Binoche `
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