À la matinée qui aura lieu aujourd'hui à l'Eldorado, le cinématographe Lumière fera défiler au deuxième acte du Royaume des femmes trois tableaux inédits : le Régiment en marche, les Mauvaises herbes, les Pêcheurs de sardines, que M. Lumière a composés exclusivement pour le public de l'Eldorado.

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Le Petit Journal, Paris, 12 avril 1896, p. 3.

" Les Mauvaises herbes " brûlent autour d'un bois, des paysannes les retournent sur le feu. À noter la fumée qui les voile parfois aux yeux, et le vent qui soulève leur tablier. Le patron se promène sur la lisière à l'ombre. Feignant.

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Le Mémorial des Vosges, Épinal, 25 juin 1896.

One of the new scenes showed a group of women of Brittany burning field waste. At the side was burning heap of leaves and stalks and at the other another pile from which the fire was fed. At intervals a woman emptied a barrow full of fuel upon the pile and two other women stirred up the burning heap. No flames were seen, indicating that the camera had not caught them, but the smoke rose naturally as the mass was attired up and floated upward, growing less and less and finally disappearing. The women’s behavior was as if they were unaware that their picture was being taken, and they attended to their tasks as if their wages depended on it. In this respect this scene this scene was in contrast to some of the others.

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The Sun, New York, 15 juillet 1896, p. 7.

There is a photograph of burning leaves in a park in which the naturalness of the wreathing and curling smoke is a wonder. The smallest movements are faithfully reproduced, even to the fluttering of leaves and smoke in the wind.

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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York, 25 août 1896, p. 9.