Les Forgerons


Les Forgerons also known as The Blacksmiths is an 1895 French short blackandwhite silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumire. Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.

As with all early Lumire movies, this film was made in amm format with an aspect ratio of 1.331. It was filmed by means of the Cinmatographe, an allinone camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer.Two men stand working as blacksmiths. The one on the left of the screen repeatedly hammers an anvil while the man on the right winds a device. The man of the left then removes the metal he was hammering and places it into a bucket of water. At the end of the film a third man walks onto the screen from the left, with a wine glass and bottle in hand, hands the glass to the smith at the anvil, and begins to pour him a drink. ........

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