1895年的12月28日，是一个普通的周六，但也是世界上第一部影片《工厂的大门》诞生的日子。
巴黎卡普辛路14号的大咖啡馆人声嘈杂，所有人都好奇地等待着这个稀奇东西——活动电影放映机，有人告诉他们接下来要放映影片。
不一会，墙面上出现了画面：
卢米埃尔工厂大门徐徐打开，一群头戴缎带纽结羽帽，身穿紧身上衣和曳地长裙，腰系围裙的女工首先走出，接着是一群手推自行车的男工。
与这一百余名鱼贯而出、繁忙劳作的工人的方向相同，厂主们乘坐一辆由两匹骏马拉着的马车进入工厂。
年轻的女士们一边躲避车辆，一边快步行走，表现出闲暇时光的欢乐情绪。大门口还跑出一只蹦蹦跳跳的大狗；此后，工厂门卫走出来，很快把工厂大门关闭起来。
*该部分描写摘自百度百科
127年前的打工人们下班的喜悦就此定格。
这场来自1895年的公映活动被认为是电影诞生的标志。它不仅引起了当时观众的震惊和赞叹，而且在由意大利、法国、英国、美国、苏联、西班牙、瑞士和西德的19名评论家、电影史学家组成的评委委员会上，被评定为“有史以来世界一百部最佳影片”的第45名，还被列为世界各国大学电影艺术研究生的必看片目之首。同时，本片也是导演路易斯·卢米埃尔（Louis Lumière）拍摄的第一部影片。
路易斯·卢米埃尔出生于法国，他既是导演、制片人，也同时是一位电影发明家。IMDB（Internet Movie Database，互联网电影资料库）介绍了他作为电影发明家的成就：
Although no one will ever come up with a definitive answer as to who invented the cinema (probably because no one single person was responsible), Louis Lumière has one of the strongest claims to the title - for it was he (with his brother Auguste) who invented the cinematographe : a machine that combined the functions of camera and projector and was thus able to project films onto a screen to an audience.
The invention was patented on February 13 1895, and a programme of short films directed and photographed by Louis was first unveiled to the general public on 28 December 1895 - a date that many historians claim to be the birth-date of the cinema as we know it.
The cinematographe was an immediate hit, and its influence was colossal -within just two years, the Lumière catalogue included well over a thousand films, all of them single-shot efforts running under a minute, and many photographed by cameramen sent to various exotic locations.
Although Lumière also staged some fictive scenes, the bulk of the work bearing his name would nowadays be described as documentary reportage. In common with many cinema pioneers, he perversely saw no future for the medium, and retired in 1900 to make still photographic equipment -the field in which he originally made his reputation.
The Lumière freres' cinematographer was not their only invention.
Mainly Louis is also credited with the birth of color photograph, the Autochromes, using a single exposure trichromic basis (instead of a long three-step exposure) : a glass plaque is varnished and embedded with potato starch tinted in the three basic colors (rouge-orange, green and violet-blue), vegetal coal dust to fill the interstices and a black-and-white photographic emulsion layer to capture light.
They were the main and more successful procedure for obtaining color photographs from 1903 to 1935, when Kodachrome, then Agfacolor and other less fragile film based procedures took over.
An Autochrome is positivated from the same plaque, so they are unique images with a soft toned palette.
As the Institut Lumière describes them, they are a middle point between photography and painting (akin specially to pointillism technique), because of their pastel shades and easy but still static pose looks.
Many of the Lumières friends who got affectionate to the idea presented them with autochromes, assembled by the Institut Lumière a Lyon, the National Geographic Society, Library of Congress and other museums.
路易斯·卢米埃尔为人类电影事业的进步迈出了关键的一步，也让127年后的我们得以穿越时光，看到那些被定格的片刻欢喜。
