Postcard of E. Pichot's Cinematographe Lumiere poster circa 1895. The poster shows a delighted audience watching a short film of a boy tricking a gardener into squirting water into his face by trapping the flow through the hose with his foot and then running away. Text on reverse reads: 'The Lumiere Brothers held the world's first ever movie shows for the paying public in the Grand Café in Paris." Postcard produced by the Museum of the Moving Image.
| Item number | 40488 |
|---|---|
| Category | Postcard |
| Type | Proto-Cinema |
| Language | English |
| Country of origin | UK |
| Related people | Auguste Lumiere (Designer) |
| Louis Lumiere (Designer) | |
| E. Pichot (Artist) |
Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection