1. 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)

2. First Movie Poster - First Comedy
L'Arroseur arrosé

3. 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.

4. (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

5. 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 `

6. Did you know they have been in French films / speak French ?#1 #7 #2 #6 #3 #5 #4