Marcellin Auzolle’s poster depicts…

Marcellin Auzolle’s poster depicts an audience watching the comedy L’arroseur arrosé (Tables Turned on the Gardener) and evokes the lively energy associated with the first public screening of Lumière films on December 28, 1895, at the Grand Café in Paris. The thirty-minute program featured ten short films, projected at a scale of around 6½×9 feet. The audience appears just as animated as the filmed performers, gesturing, laughing, and enjoying the collective experience.