Hangar du Premier-Film

English translation

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History

The hangar of the First Film, located next to the Château Lumière, is the only remaining vestige of the former Lumière factories. The site was originally a hat factory that the Lumière brothers had acquired in 1881 to set up their photographic plate factory. Of the vast complex capable of housing some 300 employees, only this hangar subsists, covered with corrugated iron, formerly embedded in other buildings and which communicated with other parts of the factory. It is a rectangular space covered with its original roof structure composed of four half-trusses, and bounded by two walls with rectangular openings. The factory boundary wall and the gateway have disappeared, but the roof structure is indeed the one visible in the film "The Exit from the Lumière Factories", filmed on 19 March 1895 by Louis Lumière. This hangar is the material support of the first image of the first film in the history of cinema. The hangar was restored in 1998 and the site, developed by the architect Pierre Colboc, serves as the entrance to a screening room of the Lumière Institute.