La Mer (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | La Mer |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | Silent movie |
| Publishing year | 1895 |
| length | 1 minute |
| Rod | |
| Director | Louis Lumière |
| production | Louis Lumière |
| camera | Louis Lumière |
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La Mer is a French short film from 1895 directed by Louis Lumière . This film is one of the first commercially screened films by Lumière Cinématographe . The film premiered on December 28, 1895, along with other films, in the Salon India Grand Café in Paris .
Movie content
The film shows how four men and a woman jump from a jetty into the sea and repeat this process several times.
Background information
The film was shot with a 1.33: 1 aspect ratio on 35 mm film using a cinematograph .
During the shooting, the weather was very stormy, this can be seen from the footage. The film was released in America under the title The Sea . It is believed that the film was also released under the title Baignade en mer .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.victorian-cinema.net/venues.htm
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000023/technical
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000023/#comment
Web links
- La Mer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- La Mer in the online film database
- The video on institut-lumiere.org
- The video on Youtube