The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
About The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
Photographers come off a riverboat at Neuville-sur-Saône, filing down the gangway with their cases. Auguste Lumière and the astronomer P. J. C. Janssen are among them. The line keeps coming until the plank is crowded.
Cast & crew
More about The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
Louis Lumière filmed the arrival of a photography congress. The French title is Neuville-sur-Saône: Débarquement du congrès des photographie à Lyon. The first screening was on 12 June 1895, months before the Grand Café program.
Themes
Background
The June 1895 showing predates the 28 December public run at the Grand Café. Lumière was still demonstrating the Cinématographe to specialists, here to photographers.
Making
Louis pointed the Cinématographe at the plank and waited. The congress supplied its own crowd, carrying the same boxes the camera itself depended on.
Look
Louis Lumière framed the gangway at Neuville-sur-Saône and let the delegates walk through the shot.
Preservation
The one-minute view survives, including a copy on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Janssen, known for astronomical photography, walks in the line as himself.
- Auguste Lumière, Louis's brother, is also in the crowd leaving the boat.
- The shot is the gangway, not the meeting hall in Lyon.
- The view runs about one minute.
- A Commons file is titled Le débarquement du Congrès de photographie à Lyon.
Scenes
- Delegates with camera cases come down the riverboat gangway one after another.
