Méliès et l’invention du cinéma

Documentary exhibition on loan from the D.D.L.L.P. accessible during library opening hours

Today, cinema is one of our favorite pastimes. But how did it come about? And how did it become such a creative art form, even though its very inventors thought it was nothing more than a curiosity that would go out of fashion?

From the many technical advances of the 19th century to the Lumière brothers? Cinématographe, and from the first everyday sketches to narrative films, cinema?s destiny was shaped in its early years by a number of pioneers. One of them had a decisive influence on this destiny: Georges Méliès, the magician who revolutionized cinematographic technique and introduced a fairytale touch.