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A list of films set in Lyon, France: 1895: 14 vues Lumière filmées à Lyon entre 1895 et 1900 by Auguste and Louis Lumière; 1929: The Kiss (Le Baiser) by Jacques Feyder with Greta Garbo; 1938: Le Petit Chose by Maurice Cloche with Arletty, Robert Lynen; 1945: 120 rue de la Gare by Jacques Daniel-Norman with René Dary, Sophie Desmarets;
The Lumière Festival (French: Festival Lumière), also called the Grand Lyon Film Festival, is an annual film festival held each October in Metropolis of Lyon, France, since 2009. The festival is named in honor of the Lumière brothers , who invented the Cinématographe motion picture system in 1895, and is organized by the Institut Lumière .
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The film La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon, one of the earliest motion pictures ever made, was shot in the immediate vicinity of the Institut. The rehabilitation of the former Lumière factories was confided to the architect Pierre Colboc and the Chief architect of historic monuments Didier Repellin, associated with the agency dUCKS Scéno ...
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The Lumière brothers (UK: / ˈ l uː m i ɛər /, US: / ˌ l uː m i ˈ ɛər /; French:), Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948), [1] [2] were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and ...
Lyon [c] (Franco-Provençal: Liyon) is the second-largest city in France by urban area and the third largest by city limits. [14] It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille, 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, 58 km (36 mi) northeast of Saint-Étienne.
The Lumière brothers made their first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (Sortie de l'usine Lumière de Lyon), that same year. The first commercial, public screening of cinematographic films happened on 20 May 1895 at 156 Broadway, New York City, when the " Eidoloscope ", invented by Woodville Latham and Eugene Lauste was presented. [ 3 ]