The Birth of Cinema
1946, French. Directed by Georges Sadoul & Roger Leenhardt.
The prehistory of the cinema as we know it today, with its great inventors: Marey, Muybridge, Reynaud, Edison, the brothers Lumière and their great inventions: the kinetoscope, the praxinoscope, the chromophotograph, the film camera.
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- 0h 40m
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- French
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- Released
- 2 August 1946
- Original title
- Naissance du cinéma
- Country
- France
- Written by
- Georges Sadoul, Roger Leenhardt
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The Birth of Cinema (1946) was directed by Georges Sadoul and Roger Leenhardt.