Workers Leaving The Lumiere Factory or La Sortie des usines Lumière (original French title; literal English translation The Exit From the Lumière Factories), made in 1895, is a significant short film produced and distributed by the Lumière Brothers. 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... The Lumière Brothers, Louis Jean (October 5, 1864,Besançon, France – June 6, 1948,Bandol) and Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas (October 19, 1862 ,Besançon, France,– April 10, 1954,Lyon), were the creators of the cinematographe, a three-in-one motion picture camera, developer and projector, and were among...

It depicts everything promised in the title — a large group of mostly female workers in Belle Époque garb, exiting a large building, (25 rue St. Victor, Montplaisir on the outskirts of Lyon, France) as if they had just finished a day's work. The film is widely cited as the first documentary film, an honor debunked by modern film scholars who suggest that several "takes" may have filmed on the same day. La Belle Époque, or beautiful era, was a period in Frances history that began during the late 19th century and lasted until World War I. Occurring at the midpoint of the Third Republic, the Belle Époque was considered a golden time of beauty, innovation, and peace between France and... Lyons), see Lyons (disambiguation). ... Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. ...

Arguments against the "documentary" honor include:

• Judging from the shadows, the sun is directly overhead. It is roughly noon; an early day?
• Are those really their work clothes, or did they purposefully dress up, knowing that they would have their pictures taken?
• The workers on the left exit to the right, and vice versa (this suggests they were given direction -- not a "documentary" practice).
• No one walks toward the camera.
• A dog and bicyclist appear at the same time, from different parts of the frame.
• A carriage drawn by two horses is the grand finale, which would be unusual to find in the factory.

The film is often cited as the "first film ever projected." [1]

See also

• Arrival of a Train
• History of cinema

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External links

• Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory at the Internet Movie Database