Boules Game
About Boules Game
Players contest a game of boules in the cours du Midi in Lyon. The camera holds on the pitch while they throw and dispute the points.
Cast & crew
More about Boules Game
This is Lumière view no. 27, Concours de boules, shot May 24–26, 1896. The GRIMH catalogue leaves the operator blank and gives 17 meters. It was shown in Lyon on May 31, 1896, as Le Concours de boules. The catalogue line says boules was very popular in Lyon and that the view shows a contest among the best players.
Themes
Look
A single daylight setup on the cours du Midi. The operator is not named on the Lumière catalogue sheet.
Preservation
A photographic frame from the view is at the Musée d'Orsay.
Notes
- Wikidata names Louis Lumière as director. The GRIMH sheet for view 27 does not name an operator.
- A later Mexican show, September 10, 1896, billed it as Boliches en Francia.
- It is not the family game Partie de boules (view 72), shot at the Lumière house in La Ciotat.
- The Musée d'Orsay holds a frame from plaque 3, film 27, given by Dr. Paul Génard in 1991.
Scenes
- Players throw and argue a point on the Lyon pitch.
