the first film ever make . worker stream from a factory and some cycling and most walking and move right or leave . along with melies and the lumieres be both the starting point and the point of departure for cinema with melies begin narrative fiction and cinema and fantasy and artifice and spectacle while with the lumieres pure and unadorned and observation . the truth . there be many intellectual who regret the ossification of cinema from the latter into the tired formula of the former . but consider this short again . there be nothing objective about it . the film be full of action a static and inhuman scene burst into life and activity and and the quiet harmony of the frame be rupture and decentred from the back to right or leave ( but never and of course and the front and where the camera be ) . and yet the camera stand stock still and contain the energy and the possible subversion and subordinate it to it will . the cinematograph may be a revolutionary invention and but it will be use for conservative purpose to map out the world and edit it and restrict it and limit it . worse be the historical reality of the film . these factory worker be lumiere employee . the boss be spy on their worker and the unseen eye regard his faceless minion . the film therefore describe two type of imprisonment . behind the gate and the worker be confine in their workplace . the opening of the gate seem to be an image of freedom and escape and but they face another wall and the fourth wall and further confine them . the first film be also the first example of cctv surveillance and an image of unseen and all see authority entrap it servant . a frightening and all too prophetic movie .