Passenger get off a steamship in this Lumiere actuality. A couple of them pause to acknowledge the camera.
The Lumieres place the camera carefully and allow the lines of debarking passengers to provide the motion here. Modern viewers will look at this and say "So what?" but that's common for a lot of the actualities, short movies under a minute -- that's how much film the Lumiere cameras held -- which depicted people doing what people did.
For the contemporary audiences, it was a view of luxury. Modern viewers may not be impressed, but little snippets like this wound up becoming the standard for the movies. Here it is, being done for the first time.
The Lumieres place the camera carefully and allow the lines of debarking passengers to provide the motion here. Modern viewers will look at this and say "So what?" but that's common for a lot of the actualities, short movies under a minute -- that's how much film the Lumiere cameras held -- which depicted people doing what people did.
For the contemporary audiences, it was a view of luxury. Modern viewers may not be impressed, but little snippets like this wound up becoming the standard for the movies. Here it is, being done for the first time.
