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Sry I'll finish today

$#!^ i keep forgetting to do this, i will watch these fellows DURING LUNCH!

SAD_SCROOGE wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:25 pm seen 13

"Transformation by Hats" (Louis Lumière, 1895)
"Laveuses sur la rivière" (Louis Lumière/Auguste Lumière, 1897)
"Snowball Fight" (Louis Lumière, 1897)
"La petite fille et son chat" (Louis Lumière, 1899)
"The Mechanical Butcher" (Louis Lumière, 1895)

new ballot:

seen 28

"Transformation by Hats" (Louis Lumière, 1895)
"Laveuses sur la rivière" (Louis Lumière/Auguste Lumière, 1897)
"Baignade en mer" (Louis Lumière, 1895)
"Snowball Fight" (Louis Lumière, 1897)
"Panorama de l’arrivée à Aix-les-Bains pris du train" (Louis Lumière, 1896)

a clip of snowball fight is on the front page of the nyt online today, in a colorized version

flip wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 4:46 pm in a colorized version

Eeep. Is black-and-white not fit to print?

Evelyn Library P.I. wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 6:08 pm Eeep. Is black-and-white not fit to print?

the caption describes it as a "a viral clip of old-timey French people", and anyone willing to print the phrase "old-timey French people" has to be willing to print just about anything.

they seem to have replaced the 5-second clip with a still, but i'm guessing the 'viral clip' was in colour

i watched another octet of lumiere films and updated my ballot, then tallied results:

results
1. Exiting the Factory (1895) — 18 pts
2. Snowball Fight (1897) — 16 pts
2. Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) — 16 pts
4. Panorama de l’arrivee a Aix-les-Bains pris du train (1896) — 12 pts
5. Lancement d’un Navire (1896) — 10 pts
5. The Sprinkler Sprinkled (1895) — 10 pts
7. Demolition of a Wall (1896) — 8 pts
8. Le Dejeuner du Chat (1897) — 6 pts
9. Transformation by Hats (1895) — 5 pts
10. Laveuses sur la Riviere (1897) — 4 pts
10. Passage d’un Tunnel en Chemin de Fer (1898) — 4 pts
10. Arrivee d’un train a Perrache (1896) — 4 pts
13. Boat Leaving the Port (1895) — 3 pts
13. Serpentine Dance (1897) — 3 pts
13. Baignade en Mer (1895) — 3 pts
13. La Peche aux Poissons Rouges (1895) — 3 pts
13. Panorama de l’arrivee en Gare de Perrache pris du train (1896) — 3 pts
13. The Merry Skeleton (1898) — 3 pts
13. Baby’s Meal (1895) — 3 pts
20. Ploughing (1896) — 2 pts
20. Panorama pendant l’ascension de la Tour Eiffel (1898) — 2 pts
20. Card Game (1896) — 2 pts
23. Defile de Voitures de Bebes (1899) — 1 pt

flip wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 4:46 pm a clip of snowball fight is on the front page of the nyt online today, in a colorized version

Yeah, looks gross! especcially the movements...

flip wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 6:25 pm

Evelyn Library P.I. wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 6:08 pm Eeep. Is black-and-white not fit to print?

the caption describes it as a "a viral clip of old-timey French people", and anyone willing to print the phrase "old-timey French people" has to be willing to print just about anything.

ok, now I've actually read the whole dumb article. Does the New York Times regularly hire morons from high school to write their articles?

flip wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 6:25 pmthe 5-second clip

i was so confused reading through this, thinking i'm having a dream about being in harry potter world, with moving newspapers... until i read up and saw you said "nyt online"

On this day, 125 years ago.

i couldn't vote as i love them all ♥

the snowball fight went viral, something about the pure joy of spontaneous events. although this was most likely one of the brothers' staged clips?

like the bicyclist, what was he thinking, he could have easily avoided this lol

greennui wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 3:12 pm On this day, 125 years ago.

Well damn, I sure picked a good day to watch Histoire(s) du cinéma for the first time! What a coincidence, I wasn't thinking of this anniversary at all, nor had I been aware of it! (I watched the movie this afternoon in the GMT+8 time zone.)

rischka wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 4:49 pm although this was most likely one of the brothers' staged clips?

yeah, definitely one of their 'fictitious' ones, like "boat leaving the port", "workers leaving the factory" or "the sprinkler sprinkled".
The Lumiere's and their cameramen didn't do as much "documentary" films as was usually assumed and also made many great fiction films (like that snowball fight).

colorized and speed adjusted...
https://twitter.com/artistsdoing/status ... 89281?s=20

posted to le box:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... -poll-252/