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Louis Lumière was on the board of directors of a sanatorium near Lyon and most likely donated films including “Heavy Weather on the Sea, No 2” to the institution to show patients.
I Turn of the CenturyWhen menstruation was alarming and Mesmer all the rage,when hysterical women were locked away—forced flowers in a hot house, les fleurs du mal—when one was sane or insane with nothingin between but a doctor' pince-nez,the Lumière brothers, gods of the seventh art,sat on the board of a sanatorium and made decisions about madness.II Heavy Weather on the Sea, No 2