Repas de bébé is an 1895

1895 in film

-Events:* February–March - Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres build and run the first working 35 mm movie camera in Britain, the Kineopticon. Their first films include Incident at Clovelly Cottage, The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race and Rough Sea at Dover.* In France, the brothers...

 French

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 short

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 black-and-white

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 silent

Silent film

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 documentary film

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 directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring Andrée Lumière.

The film formed part of the first commercial presentation of the Lumière Cinématographe on December 28, 1895 at the Salon Indien, Grand Café, 14 Boulevard des Capuchins, Paris.

Production

As with all early Lumière movies, this film was made in a 35 mm format

35 mm film

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 with an aspect ratio

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 of 1.33:1. It was filmed by means of the Cinématographe

Cinematographe

A cinematograph is a film camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer. It was invented in the 1890s.Note that this was not the first 'moving picture' device. Louis Le Prince had built early devices in 1886. His 1888 film Roundhay Garden Scene still survives.There is much dispute as...

, an all-in-one camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer.

Plot

The film consists of one shot of Auguste Lumiere, his wife and baby daughter having breakfast in the countryside.

Cast

• Andrée Lumière as Herself, 'bébé'
• Auguste Lumière as Himself, Auguste Lumière
• Mrs. Auguste Lumiere as Herself, Marguerite Lumière

Current status

Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet. It has also featured in a number of film collections including Landmarks of Early Film volume 1 and The Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1913. It also forms part of Visions of Light

Visions of Light

Visions of Light is a 1992 documentary film directed by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, and Stuart Samuels. The film is also known as Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography....

a 1992 documentary film and the The Lumière Brothers' First Films a compilation produced in 1996.

External links

• Complete video at The Lumiere Institute (requires quicktime)