The 20 Best of Louis Lumiere
Here I have listed the twenty best films from filmmaker Louis Lumiere.
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- DirectorGeorges MélièsThis lost film is speculated to have featured a serpentine dance, possibly in an imitation of the Edison Studios' "Annabelle" films, except with a different dancer.Louis Lumiere directs his version of Loie Fuller's Serpentine Dance. It's hand-tinted color makes it stand out when compared to other films being made in 1896.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsFrançois ClercBenoît DuvalAn impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA 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.Lumiere films what is considered the be the first science fiction film.
- DirectorLouis LumièreOutdoors, with a nondescript building in the background, four men stand, each holding the corner of a blanket stretched parallel to the ground. They wear the clothes of laborers. By the back corner on our left stands a uniformed man who seems in charge. A sixth man stands back from the blanket about six paces; he runs forward and takes a leap but stops at the edge of the blanket and is upbraided by the uniformed gent. The same thing happens a second time, but the next three times, he completes a flip, landing on his back in the middle of the blanket, and the four then boost him out toward the camera. The final time seems like it will be his last for awhile.A man attempts to jump over a blanket held by a group of man, but manages to mostly mugg for the camera.
- DirectorLouis LumièreTwo blacksmiths work while the vapors rise in the air. Later, another man arrives and offers a drink.
- DirectorFrancis DoublierA household gardener is outside watering the garden. Unknown to him, the son of another servant sneaks up behind him and steps on the hose, stopping the flow of water. The befuddled gardener doesn't know what happened to the water flow, putting the hose nozzle up to his face to investigate. The boy then steps off the hose, resulting in the gardener getting sprayed in the face with water. The boy ends up getting his comeuppance.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsFélicien TreweyThe transformation of the same character in six different characters. A vision of the act of transformation.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreClément MauriceA 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.A man becomes angry as his subject will not sit still for a photo.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA man tries to get on a horse , but he climbs to one side and falls from the other, until he manages to stay in balance.No riding takes place as a man fools around while mounting a horse.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA troupe of French mounted cuirassiers charge across a field.
- DirectorCharles MoissonFive black and white minstrels dancing and playing musical instruments in Rupert Street, London.
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis LumièreStarsMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerMrs. Auguste LumiereA train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- DirectorLouis LumièreWorkers 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.Probably Lumiere's most famous short. It would be the first film shown by the Lumiere brothers. They displayed the film at the National Society for Industrial Encouragement in Paris on March 22, 1895.
- DirectorLouis LumièreSeveral little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.Kids jump off of a small pier into the sea.
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- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAntoine FéraudAndré HonnoratJeanne KoehlerAn old-fashioned car ('voiture' in french) departs on a journey. Several people wave their good-byes to the occupants of the vehicle.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA short black and white film which captures the activities during a school's recreational break.The first from the pioneer.
- DirectorLouis LumièreOne after the other, soldiers perform an aerobatic exercise which consists of standing on a horse. Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.
- During the winter, a train arrives at Aix-les-Bains. Through the window we can see the city covered in snow.
- DirectorLouis LumièreSeveral young boys are playing marbles on the streets, while several girls of about the same age watch their game.