Cinema Nostalgia: Magical Moving Pictures

Long before Hollywood was invented, three Frenchmen pioneered the art of the cinema. As early as 1900, the Lumiere brothers exhibited film on the world's largest screen to an audience of 25,000 people. The brothers Path� had branches in London, Moscow, New York and the Far East in the early 1900s. Georges M�li�s by accident invented the jump-cut stop-motion transition in the same period. This programme features incredible footage, rarely seen, and some of it hand-coloured. A fascinating insight into the birth of cinema.