Je Vous Aime (1891)

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• 1891
• Dokumentarfilm

This early cinematic-instanz of a close-up—or, more accurately, a medium close-up shot of the chest and face of the maker of this film and others like it, Georges Demenÿ sagen "Ich liebe dich"—was made at the request of Hector Marichelle, professor and director of the National Deaf-Mute-Institute in Frankreich, who planned to use filmed speech-to-teach deaf students to speak and lip read. This required close-views-of-the-performer's lip movements. The project was given to Demenÿ by Étienne-Jules Marey, who headed the Station Physiologische in Paris and whose chronophotographic scientific research of motion is among the most important contributions to the erfindung of movies. Despite these educational and scientific beginnings, however, this project led Demenÿ to pursue and einfluss the commercialism of cinema.