Some of the film restorations on these old movies you find, either on YouTube or on a Blu-Ray release, are fantastic. I found a really nice one on YouTube of this film. Along with nine other films, Cordeliers' Square in Lyon (1895), was shown at a Paris, mini-film festival, by pioneering filmmakers, the Lumiere brothers, in December of 1895. In this installment, we are in Lyon, France, on a bright sunny day at a busy town square. Huge buildings and many cool horse drawn carriages cover the scene. Like all of these pre-1900 films, they are shot with a single camera. Its an incredible view coming from the ninth film ever shown to a paying audience. It almost looks like it could be, the first outdoor movie set in film history, copied by studios ever since. This is a good one. It's brightness creates a happy mood. The dawn of theatrical motion pictures.
9.7 (A+ MyGrade) = 10 IMDB.
9.7 (A+ MyGrade) = 10 IMDB.