Je vous aime

Je Vous Aime (1891)

This film from Georges Demeny shows a close up of a man's face and then we see the lips move. This film was done so that Dr. Hector Marichelle, the director of the National Deaf-Mute Institute, could show people how to read lips. With that bit of history noted, there's nothing here that would change film history but there's no doubt that this helped what the original cause was. It's easy to see how this film could be used to teach people how to read lips and on that level alone it's an interesting piece of history and very much worth watching.