Card Party

Partie de cartes

France

1897

1 Min

Black and White

Silent

No Subtitles

Audio in Silent

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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For many, cinema began on December 28, 1895, with the first public projection of short films like Arrival of a Train and The Card Party by Louis and Auguste Lumière. But these iconic films also exist in alternative versions, sometimes with each frame of the print colored by hand! Card Party was found in a French cheese store in the mid-1980s, along with five other “vues” in color. Music by Neil Brand. —Flicker Alley

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Kenji

23Sep12

I think really this and Melies' Card Party would be better titled Card Game

Kenji

10Sep12

A reminder not only of the Lumieres and Melies but of Pagnol's delightful characters in his Marseille trilogy

garridoa

5Jun12

The water colored tinting is quite endearing! I suppose someone had to do it frame by frame. This sort of coloring was an obligatory practice among Japanese photographers in the 1880s; a painstakingly tedious process, but the end result is startlingly beautiful.