Underplayed Gems

Le Repas de bébé (1895)

Le Repas de bébé poster
Original title
Repas de bébé
Directed by
Louis Lumière
Genre
documentary film, silent film
Country
France
Runtime
41 min
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 169 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A father and mother feed their baby during a meal. It is a short single shot of a family moment from the 1890s.

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What happens

Repas de bébé (also known as Le Repas de bébé, Le Repas (de bébé), Le Déjeuner de bébé, Baby’s First Meal, Baby’s Breakfast, Baby’s Lunch, Baby's Dinner, Baby's Tea Time, The Family Breakfast, A Baby's Meal, Feeding the Baby, and Feeding Baby) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent actuality film photographed by Louis Lumière and showing his brother Auguste Lumière and Auguste's wife Marguerite feeding their infant daughter, Andrée Lumière. One of the earliest recordings made by the brothers Lumière, Le Repas de bébé (catalogued as Vue no. 88) is an unedited, single take of less than a minute's duration. The company's catalog described it as "Un papa fait avaler son déjeuner à un bébé" (a father feeds lunch [or breakfast] to a baby) and records that the scene was taken between March 22 and June 10, 1895. 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 Capucines, Paris. It was the seventh of ten films on the program, each 17 meters long. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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