Paris’s First Film Stars

In his final years, Toulouse-Lautrec witnessed the invention and early development of a world-changing visual art: the cinema. After its spectacular debut at the Grand Café on December 28, 1895, cinema captured the French imagination and made its first directors stars: the Lumières and Méliès, Gaumont and Pathé, and Alice Guy-Blaché. Learn about the artists, inventions, and aesthetic innovations that made Paris the epicenter of world film culture. Brian R. Jacobson, assistant professor, Cinema Studies and History, University of Toronto Wednesday, April 24, 2019