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71
70
7.4
/13788/
68
/369/
70
/509/
3.7
/34383/

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896)
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.
poster
68
60
7.1
/6304/
64
/175/
68
/263/
3.5
/12386/

The Sprinkler Sprinkled (1895)
A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy then lifts his foot from the hose, whereby the water squirts up in the gardener's face. The gardener chases the boy, grips his ear and slaps him in his buttocks. The boy then runs away and the gardener continues his watering. Three separate versions of this film exist, this is the original, filmed by Louis Lumière.
poster
66
59
6.8
/8158/
63
/202/
66
/352/
3.5
/17971/

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895)
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, although Louis Le Prince's 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene pre-dated it by seven years. Three separate versions of this film exist, which differ from one another in numerous ways. The first version features a carriage drawn by one horse, while in the second version the carriage is drawn by two horses, and there is no carriage at all in the third version. The clothing style is also different between the three versions, demonstrating the different seasons in which each was filmed. This film was made in the 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and at a speed of 16 frames per second. At that rate, the 17 meters of film length provided a duration of 46 seconds, holding a total of 800 frames.
poster
64
48
6.4
/2946/
63
/69/
62
/125/
3.4
/5338/

Demolition of a Wall (1896)
Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. 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 white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.
poster
67
47
6.7
/2162/
64
/48/
65
/77/
3.6
/5023/

Snowball Fight (1897)
Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along the road becomes the target of opportunity. He falls off his bicycle. He's not hurt, but he rides back the way he came, as the fight continues.
poster
57
46
5.9
/3739/
54
/91/
55
/163/
3.1
/6204/

Baby's Meal (1895)
A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding Baby her lunch, while Mum is serving tea.
poster
68
42
6.8
/1084/
68
/51/
65
/73/
3.7
/6299/

Serpentine Dance (1897)
Angelic and demonic serpentine dance from dawn of cinema. Hand-colored frame by frame. Lumière no. 765 or 765.1 (colorized, different dancer?).
poster
58
39
5.9
/1694/
55
/46/
54
/85/
3.3
/4502/

Boat Leaving the Port (1895)
In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching them from the nearby pier.
poster
63
39
6.4
/1249/
62
/35/
62
/61/
3.4
/3782/

The Dancing Skeleton (1898)
A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
poster
54
38
5.7
/2109/
51
/51/
53
/95/
2.9
/2726/

The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon (1895)
Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.
poster
55
37
5.7
/1625/
50
/42/
54
/88/
3.1
/2640/

Swimming in the Sea (1895)
Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.
poster
56
37
5.6
/1717/
52
/34/
56
/64/
3.0
/2272/

The Card Game (1896)
Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.
poster
59
34
6.1
/1320/
59
/22/
57
/43/
3.1
/1708/

Transformation by Hats (1895)
Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.
poster
61
34
6.1
/794/
58
/24/
57
/44/
3.4
/1843/

The Little Girl and Her Cat (1899)
A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell cat, with long hair and a very furry tail, has leapt onto the table.
poster
56
33
5.8
/1091/
53
/26/
57
/47/
2.9
/1807/

The Mechanical Butcher (1895)
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.
poster
55
33
5.6
/1299/
51
/33/
54
/70/
3.0
/1664/

Cordeliers' Square in Lyon (1895)
Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.
poster
59
32
5.8
/635/
57
/21/
53
/35/
3.6
/1945/

Washerwomen on the River (1897)
Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.
poster
56
30
5.3
/303/
45
/5/
46
/19/
3.1
/547/
41
/265/
89
/2710/

Women Fighting (1896)
A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.
poster
50
30
5.1
/1236/
47
/37/
48
/69/
2.7
/1911/

Fishing for Goldfish (1895)
A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.
poster
54
30
5.5
/1159/
56
/36/
52
/65/
2.8
/1386/

Horse Trick Riders (1895)
In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a black uniform, demonstrates how to mount the horse then encourages and tries to assist a man in white. The man in white keeps falling, and soon it's apparent that he's an putting on a show. His pratfalls become more elaborate and stylish. The horse stands patient. The little groom laughs to see such sport. And finally, the man in white finds a comic accommodation. The story, though brief, has a beginning, middle, and end.
poster
54
30
5.5
/1115/
51
/28/
55
/63/
2.9
/1357/

Jumping the Blanket (1895)
Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to jump into the blanket.
poster
56
29
5.7
/722/
48
/20/
60
/47/
3.1
/1282/

Arrival of a Train at Perrache (1896)
A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.
poster
49
29
5.1
/1235/
44
/42/
50
/74/
2.7
/1502/

The Blacksmiths (1895)
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water, causing a cloud of vapor in the process.
poster
57
29
5.9
/1017/
53
/17/
60
/33/
3.0
/1452/

Childish Quarrel (1896)
Two babies are shown seated next to each other, in high chairs, apparently enjoying themselves. Suddenly one snatches a toy from the other and they indulge in hair-pulling.
poster
57
29
5.7
/547/
55
/15/
55
/36/
3.2
/1712/

Déjeuner du Chat (1895)
A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.
poster
58
23
5.9
/532/
54
/17/
58
/32/
3.2
/887/

Panorama de l'arrivée en gare de Perrache pris du train (1896)
A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.
poster
55
23
5.8
/581/
49
/11/
55
/29/
3.1
/1081/

Photograph (1895)
A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him. 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 impatient.
poster
55
23
5.5
/515/
55
/21/
52
/37/
3.1
/906/

Lyon, place Bellecour (1895)
Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.
poster
56
22
5.6
/615/
53
/16/
56
/34/
3.0
/762/

Partie de boules (1896)
Friends and relatives playing a game of boules, arguing about who's team is winning.
poster
60
22
5.8
/584/
62
/15/
58
/35/
3.2
/660/

Sack Race (1896)
Shot in 1896, this playful actuality captures workers from the Lumière factory in Lyon competing in a sack race. The scene shows the participants’ comic struggles and falls, with onlookers enjoying the lighthearted contest. Beyond its humor, the film offers a glimpse of everyday leisure and camaraderie among the Lumière workforce during cinema’s earliest years.
poster
54
22
5.7
/524/
46
/11/
50
/34/
3.2
/892/

Bocal aux poissons rouges (1897)
[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of cinema has witnessed a struggle between the objective and subjective camera and the optically distorting lenses like the fisheye lens has been a powerful tool for the subjective camera. Here it is at the start.
poster
57
21
5.7
/514/
52
/14/
56
/32/
3.2
/741/

Baby's First Steps (1896)
A mother takes her children for a walk, lifts her baby girl out of the buggy and gently sets her down to the ground. She then moves a few steps away and calls her name, to demonstrate that her baby can walk.
poster
55
21
5.5
/603/
53
/17/
54
/31/
3.1
/760/

Boules Game (1896)
N/A
poster
51
20
5.4
/856/
44
/11/
50
/23/
3.0
/879/

Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke (1896)
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 with long metal rakes wait to spread it out. Other workers buzz in and out of the foreground of the stationary camera. Atop the first level of the brick smelter, workers push full carts of coal along a track.
poster
59
19
5.9
/417/
58
/6/
60
/20/
3.2
/849/

Bicyclist (1896)
Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.
poster
56
19
5.6
/455/
49
/14/
56
/30/
3.1
/610/

Procession of Baby Carriages at a Paris Nursery (1899)
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, along their nurses.
poster
58
19
5.7
/445/
56
/19/
58
/30/
3.1
/491/

The Nanny and the Soldier (1897)
A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.
poster
50
18
5.1
/441/
48
/15/
48
/33/
2.8
/745/

Le maréchal-ferrant (1895)
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to receive a new shoe.
poster
54
17
5.3
/477/
53
/14/
51
/31/
3.1
/506/

Bassin des Tuileries (1896)
Short of the Tuileries.
poster
55
17
5.3
/412/
58
/13/
53
/28/
3.0
/589/

Champs-Élysées (1896)
Documentary of Paris.
poster
53
17
5.2
/530/
49
/17/
52
/26/
3.0
/566/

Ateliers de La Ciotat (1896)
Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.
poster
56
17
5.6
/478/
51
/12/
54
/24/
3.2
/595/

Lyon: Quai de l'Archevêché (1896)
The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.
poster
57
17
5.5
/384/
57
/17/
54
/28/
3.1
/457/

London Street Dancers (1896)
Three young women dance in Drury Lane, London.
poster
57
16
5.9
/412/
52
/16/
56
/21/
3.3
/596/

Panorama during the Ascent of the Eiffel Tower (1898)
Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.
poster
54
16
5.1
/400/
52
/14/
53
/28/
3.0
/464/

Baths in the Sea (1897)
Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.
poster
50
16
5.0
/384/
48
/9/
48
/26/
2.9
/679/

Partie de tric-trac (1895)
A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets caught red-handed, which results in him closing the game board.
poster
53
16
5.2
/370/
45
/14/
51
/27/
3.1
/485/

Le goûter des bébés (1897)
No Overview
poster
59
16
5.7
/402/
63
/12/
60
/25/
3.1
/401/

Assiettes tournantes (1896)
Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.


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