Original cinematographic works from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, which marked the beginnings of cinematography (not so much as an industry but as an invention). It covers foundational films by the Lumiére brothers, Mèliés, etc., and goes back more or less to 1914, a year before Griffith changed the codes of cinematographic language with "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915. Also films and documentaries about that era.