On the seafront, behind the wrought iron gates of Eden, the oldest cinema in the world still in operation, it's the bustle of the great days.
"The fitting of top hats and Belle Époque dresses will begin!"
exclaims the master of ceremonies, Jean-Pierre Dionnet.
A surprisingly light wooden box, barely five kilos, sits on a tripod.
For Ciotaden Gilles Trarieux-Lumière, 73, great-grandson of one of the Lumière brothers, it is a great moment of emotion.
“This cinematograph invented by my brilliant ancestors in 1895 is one of the few in the world whose mechanics still work perfectly.
According to its copper plate, this one is number 26. I gave number 1 to
Thierry Frémaux
for his Institut Lumière, in Lyon. ”
Installed in Belgium, at the head of the largest private collection of the beginnings of the seventh art, Jean-Pierre Verscheure and his son Laurent brought another treasure.
The silver copies of the first films in the history of cinema, those
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