Institut Lumière
The Institut Lumière (pronounced cinématographe and fathers of the cinema.
It was founded in 1982 by Bernard Chardère and Maurice Trarieux-Lumière, the grandson of Louis Lumière.La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon, one of the earliest motion pictures ever made, was shot in the immediate vicinity of the Institut.
The rehabilitation of the former Lumière factories was confided to the architect Pierre Colboc and the Chief architect of historic monuments Didier Repellin, associated with the agency dUCKS Scéno for the scenography of the cinema and the outer spaces.
Gallery
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The present-day entrance to the institute, with a glass projection displaying where factory workers were captured on film leaving the factory
See also
- Place Ambroise-Courtois
- Jacques Deray Prize, a film award presented by the Institut Lumière
References
- ^ Mandelbaum, Jacques (24 January 2017). "" Lumière !, l'aventure commence " : les toutes premières fois du cinéma". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 10 February 2017.
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