Windowlicker

“The workers leave the Lumière factory.” Workers pass through the gate of the Lumière factory and are followed by a carriage drawn by two horses.

Runtime

1m

Director

Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière

Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director ...

Runtime

22m

Director

Jacques Rozier

Cast

Michel Piccoli, Jean Lescot, David Tonelli

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience f...

Runtime

1m

Director

Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière

Cast

Madeleine Koehler, Marcel Koehler, Marguerite Lumière

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at tha...

Runtime

30m

Director

Luis Buñuel

Cast

Abel Jacquin, Francisco Rabal, Alexandre O'Neill

Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented. They include: the production of celluloid aka film stock, the materials used in the production of which include cotton and silver; construction crews who build sets including ...

Runtime

10m