Départ en voiture
About Départ en voiture
At Clos des Plages in La Ciotat, three women climb into a horse-drawn carriage while servants hoist a heavy trunk onto the roof. Friends say goodbye. The carriage pulls away. Antoine Lumière, Marguerite Lumière, Rose Lumière, and Antoine Féraud are among the people in the view.
Cast & crew
More about Départ en voiture
Louis Lumière shot view number 32 at the family property Clos des Plages, between January 16 and April 25, 1896. The Lumière catalogue lists the length as 17 meters. It was programmed in Rouen on April 25, 1896, under the title Le Départ en voiture.
Background
Made in the first months of 1896, after the December 1895 Cinématographe shows in Paris, and sent out in the Lumière catalogue.
Making
A family view, not a staged comedy: the Lumière household loading a carriage at La Ciotat.
Look
Louis Lumière framed the carriage, the roof luggage, and the departure in one outdoor view.
Preservation
The Lumière catalogue records an original negative.
Notes
- Louis Lumière marked this view as his own in the list he gave Georges Sadoul in 1946.
- The catalogue reads the group, left to right, as Antoine Féraud and Antoine Lumière seen from behind, Marguerite Lumière in a dark dress, Rose Lumière in a light dress, and probably André Honnorat.
- Jeanne Koehler, sister of Auguste and Louis, is also named in the cast.
- Madrid programs billed it in May 1896 as La salida en carruaje.
Scenes
- Servants lift the trunk onto the carriage roof, and the horses start.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Départ en voiture - Film 1896.webm)
