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Film, Video Embarquement des filets de pêche English language translation title: Loading fishnets / Inventory title: Embarquement de filets / Collective title from inventory: Collection of Lumière films from the Cinémathèque française

Digital viewing copy

About this Item

Title

  • Embarquement des filets de pêche

Other Title

  • English language translation title: Loading fishnets
  • Inventory title: Embarquement de filets
  • Collective title from inventory: Collection of Lumière films from the Cinémathèque française

Summary

  • Men on the docks of Marseille load fishing boats with nets.

Names

  • Société anonyme des plaques et papiers photographiques
  • Cinémathèque française Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • France : La Société Lumière, 1896.

Headings

  • -  Fishers--France--Marseille

Genre

  • Actualities (Motion pictures)
  • Silent films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  Title from La production cinématographique des frères Lumière.
  • -  English language translation title, Loading fishnets, is supplied for the France in America project.
  • -  On one reel/videocassette with 58 other Lumière shorts.
  • -  Filmed in Marseille, France.
  • -  Catalogue Lumière no. 47.
  • -  Digital files viewed.
  • -  Sources used: La production cinématographique des frères Lumière, p. 217; Sadoul, G. Louis Lumière; M/B/RS Subjects files (Lumière, Louis file); M/B/RS Acquisition files (Cinémathèque française file).

Medium

  • viewing copy 1 videocassette of 1 (Betacam SP) (ca. 33 sec.) : si., b&w ; 1/2 in.
  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 20 ft.) : si., b&w. 16 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • VXF 0171 (viewing copy)
  • FCA 5142 (viewing print)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 73710472

Online Format

  • image
  • video

Additional Metadata Formats

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Société Anonyme Des Plaques Et Papiers Photographiques, and Cinémathèque Française Collection. Embarquement Des Filets De Pêche. France: La Société Lumière, 1896. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/73710472/.

APA citation style:

Société Anonyme Des Plaques Et Papiers Photographiques & Cinémathèque Française Collection. (1896) Embarquement Des Filets De Pêche. France: La Société Lumière. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/73710472/.

MLA citation style:

Société Anonyme Des Plaques Et Papiers Photographiques, and Cinémathèque Française Collection. Embarquement Des Filets De Pêche. France: La Société Lumière, 1896. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/73710472/>.