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Timec

"Thats basically true about 99.99% of all movies before the ww2"

Do you mean WW1? Because if that's what you meant, I'd probably agree with you - most movies made before 1914 or so were mostly very short and were simply experimenting with the new invention by using simple camera tricks or by documenting everyday life. Though such details can be fascinating to watch nowadays, they offer only the barest of artistic pleasures (though people like Melies were doing some awfully creative stuff.)

If you meant WW2 - as in "99.99% of movies made before 1939 offer nothing" (as opposed to movies made since 1939) - well, I'd say you're crazy. The 1920s and early sound era were some of the most creative and artistically rewarding in all of the history of film. There was a lot of crap made, yes, but that's also very true of the current era.

12 years 9 months ago

acolthart

the first film to ever be publicly exhibited, perhaps the most important film ever made. To criticise it is both immature and idiotic

10 years 7 months ago

Timec

CrumbThumber - I asked myself the same question. I realize that different people will have different criteria for "disliking" something - but this is a very, very short film, and it contains absolutely nothing offensive. It's also very easy to find with a quick Google search, so it's not like anyone should have had to expend a lot of energy or time to find it (thus feeling disappointed when they get around to watching what is, in fact, a very simple film.) And, since it's so short, it never feels tedious or chore-like like some "history lessons." The mere fact that you're watching an iconic piece of film history should be enough to at least prevent someone from disliking it.

12 years 1 month ago

ricer11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI63PUXnVMw

14 years 2 months ago

CrumbThumber

How can people "dislike" this movie? Unless you are seriously bothered that you lost 45 seconds of your life, or you don't realize it is really really old.

12 years 3 months ago

V012

I barely made it halfway through the film.

8 years 2 months ago

scronkey

Apparently the first commercial film; admission was charged to see it (along with 9 other shorts).

http://www.institut-lumiere.org/francais/films/1seance/accueil.html

The dog is the star.

12 years 2 months ago

nicolino

You can't just mock or dislike this movie. Without this and other movies, we probably wouldn't be talking about checking movies or something like that. So we all should know this was a real masterpiece, and it still is.

11 years 7 months ago

this is my movies

this movie is really important in the history of cinema beacause it contains the first traces of staging, the Lumière brothers did a 2nd take of the scene (I saw the 2 "movies") so that all employees leave before the end of the film. Scorsese and renders a direct homage in his masterpiece " After hours " .
Lumière brothers did a lot of "documentary" while Edison's company and Meliès did more "fictions". And because there are testimony of the past, they are important in history of mankind.

8 years 1 month ago

Rohit

Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYpKZx090UE&feature=related

13 years 4 months ago

Superknor

A few dudes leaving a factory WOW!
maybe one of the first pictures ever made?.....

14 years 1 month ago

nicolaskrizan

Did the Lumières really have that many employees?

http://1001movies.posterous.com

11 years 5 months ago

BlueVoid

Well, there isn't much to say about a 47 second clip of people leaving a building. It has historical value being one of the first motion pictures ever made, and there is something to be said for being able to see video of people from this era. As anything other than a historical curiosity, it offers nothing.

13 years 10 months ago

Inevitable_destiny

"Bluevoid:It has historical value being one of the first motion pictures ever made, and there is something to be said for being able to see video of people from this era. As anything other than a historical curiosity, it offers nothing."

Thats basically true about 99.99% of all movies before the ww2

13 years 4 months ago

Peeorpoo

Just because this film is important, dosen't make a "masterpiece"

It sucks by today's standards. That's a FACT.

10 years 12 months ago