Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Louis Lumière
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Louis Lumière
Writer
na
Cast
Auguste Lumière, Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Andrée Lumière
Plot
As part of a maiden public film screening at the Salon Indien, on December 28, in Paris, Auguste Lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Louis Lumière
Writer
na
Cast
Auguste Lumière
Plot
Four workers demolish an old factory wall. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of dust whirls up. Three workers continue with pi...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Louis Lumière
Writer
na
Cast
Loie Fuller
Plot
Angelic and demonic serpentine dances from dawn of cinema by the Lumière Brothers film, called the Serpentine Dance. The dancer is Loie Fuller; the pioneer modern dancer. Recorded in 1896 in Paris, and hand-colored frame by frame.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Louis Lumière
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already packaged for sale.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Louis Lumière
Writer
na
Cast
Andrée Lumière, Suzanne Lumière
Plot
"Two babies are shown seated in high chairs and apparently enjoying themselves. Suddenly one snatches a toy from the other, and they indulge in hair-pulling."
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Documentary • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Louis Lumière
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a smelter into a yard, one worker sprays it with water from a hose while two workers...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Louis Lumière
Writer
na
Cast
Auguste Lumière, Clément Maurice
Plot
A photographer has his camera all set up to take a man's picture, but just as the photographer is about to take the picture, the subject gets up to look at the camera more closely. The frustrated photographer soon becomes quite im...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Louis Lumière
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the close left to the camera. A few toddlers also follow in the same orderly line, alo...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Louis Lumière
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
In 1896, cinema pioneer Louis Lumière decided to register a man doing impressive tricks on his bicycle, closely observed by a curious crowd. Riding it backwards or standing on the top of the bike, sometimes in a clumsy way, other ...
