La Mer (film)

La Mer
Directed byLouis Lumière
Produced byLouis Lumière
CinematographyLouis Lumière
Release date
  • 1895 (1895)
Running time
38 seconds
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent

La Mer (also known as The Sea) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.

The film formed part of the first commercial presentation of the Lumière Cinématographe on 28 December 1895 at the Salon Indien, Grand Café, 14 Boulevard des Capuchins, Paris.[1]

  1. ^ "Salon Indien, Grand Café, Paris". Who's Who of Victorian Cinema. Retrieved 2007-04-05.