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Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon
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Louis Lumière, Lyon, 1895: employees pour out of the photographic-plate factory at Monplaisir, 21 rue Saint-Victor, now rue du Premier-Film. Forty-five seconds, one locked shot, women first, then men, then the gates. The Catalogue Lumière lists it as no. 91; Aubert and Seguin later numbered four versions (91.1 to 91.4). The March take shown privately on 22 March is lost. The print we know is likely a May remake, and it opened the paid programme at the Salon indien du Grand Café on 28 December.
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The first job: record. One locked shot, the gates open, and people walk toward the camera and then past it. Watch the ones who look at the lens and the ones who refuse to. The next hundred years are about which of them wins.
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