Lumière, le cinéma!: A Conversation with Thierry Frémaux (opens in new tab)

“Last night, I was in the Kingdom of Shadows,” proclaimed Maxim Gorky, writing about an 1896 projection of films by Auguste and Louis Lumière in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. “Suddenly a strange flicker passes through the screen and the picture stirs to life . . . all this moves, teems with life, and, upon approaching the edge of the screen, vanishes somewhere beyond it.”Gorky was dazzled, as were many others, by the Lumières’ 1895 invention, the Cinématographe, a major advancement on ...