Vivement le cinéma (2011)

Lovely documentary about the forerunners of cinema. It has a fictive narration by E.G. Robertson, who was a "magic lantern" operator. He was followed by Plateau, Horner, Muybridge, Marey, Demenÿ, Reynaud, Edison, and finally Lumière, not to mention several minor characters like Leprince, Skladanowski, and others.