Lumière!

This is available to watch on Youtube. The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon was fascinating as it showed the British duo making actuality films about real life in the early 1900s. It was very interesting to see how at the same time the Lumiere brothers were crossing their own frontier with the new film technology in France (and also they travelled to other countries for exotic footage to bring home). The Lumiere in a sense were making films as we know them today - scenes of spectacle impressively staged with close attention paid to the mise-en-scene. For this reason I find them less relatable than the films of Mitchell and Kenyon who are capturing real people going about their normal lives at this late Victorian / Edwardian age. But the work of the Lumiere's is historically interesting nevertheless and this documentary accumulates 108 of their short films into an insightful history of their work 1895-1905.