On December 28, 1895, Louis and Auguste Lumière demonstrated their invention, which was better than Thomas Edison's kinetoscope, in Paris at the Grand Café, 14 Boulevard des Capucines, with the world's first public commercial film screening for a small audience, which became the official birthday of cinema. The world's youngest art at the moment. It was with the screening of "Workers Walking Out of the Lumiere Factory" that the first 50-second films began. This invention not only allowed films to be viewed on the screen (previously, the kinetoscope allowed only one person to look through the eyepiece, not the most convenient way), but it was also able to combine three processes in one device: filming, copying and projection.
Today it is difficult to decide what kind of rating to give to the first documentary in history. The very appearance of the film is in principle already a 10/10, when there were absolutely no rules and other things like how to make movies. But if you look at it from today's viewing perspective (as we always do), I would give it a 6/10 as a mark of respect. They could have captured something more interesting, like their film "Arrival of a Train" than just the workers coming out, although the very gesture of documenting their people has its place.
Today it is difficult to decide what kind of rating to give to the first documentary in history. The very appearance of the film is in principle already a 10/10, when there were absolutely no rules and other things like how to make movies. But if you look at it from today's viewing perspective (as we always do), I would give it a 6/10 as a mark of respect. They could have captured something more interesting, like their film "Arrival of a Train" than just the workers coming out, although the very gesture of documenting their people has its place.