Product Details

• Format: Black & White, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Mpi Media Group
• VHS Release Date: December 18, 1991
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302280427
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #312,191 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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16 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It is not Lumiere's, October 28, 1999

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This review is from: Brothers Lumiere:George Melies [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It is not Luniere's film but 'about Lumiere'.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sheds "Light" on the "Lumiere" Bros. & Melies, December 10, 2003

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C. R. McRae, PhD (Decatur, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brothers Lumiere:George Melies [VHS] (VHS Tape)

As a professor of French, I have over the past decade taught several courses on French cinema. Several times, I have shown this excellent documentary as the "opener" in the course. It is about the right length and gives a fairly thorough treatment not only of the Lumiere Brothers (whom most would actually credit with the invention of the moving picture) and the various aspects of moviemaking in the early days, but also of their contemporary, the fascinating magician/moviemaker, Georges Melies. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in the history of film in general and of French film in particular.