Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

658 • LUMIÈRE, LOUIS
minute long took place in the Indian Lounge of the
Grand Café on December 28, 1895. The Cinématographe
was an immediate success, and the Lumière
brothers produced 2,113 movies, mostly documentary
reports photographed by cameramen all over
the world. According the catalog that he offered to
fi lm historian Georges Sadoul, Louis Lumière himself
fi lmed only seventeen shorts. In 1948, the creator of
the Cinématographe told Sadoul that he had shot
about fi fty pictures (mostly before 1896). Convinced
that his invention had no future, he gave up fi lmmaking
in 1900 and stopped production in 1905.
Parallel with his cinematographic activities, he patented
several inventions (the “Photorama,” a circular
photographic plate in 1900, and autochrome plates
in 1903). Until his retirement in 1920, he dedicated
his time to his photographic equipment factory, the
famous Usines Lumière, immortalized by one his fi rst
movies (La Sortie des Usines Lumière).
Filmography
1895 La Sortie des Usines Lumière / La Sortie des
Ouvriers des Usines Lumière / UK: Leaving the
Lumière Factory / USA: Employees Leaving the
Lumière Factory / Exiting the Factory (short)
L’Arroseur arrosé / Le Jardinier et le petit Espiègle
/ UK: The Sprayer Sprayed / USA: The Sprinkler
Sprinkled / The Tables Turned on the Gardener /
The Waterer Watered (short)
Les Assiettes tournantes (short)
Les Ateliers de la Ciotat (short)
Baignade en Mer (short)
Barque sortant du Port / La Sortie du Port / UK
and USA: Boat Leaving the Port (short)
Bocal aux poissons rouges (short)
Chapeaux à Transformations / USA: Hats with
Transformations / Transformation by Hats / Transformation
by Hats, Comic View (short)
La Charcuterie mécanique / USA: The Mechanical
Butcher (short)
Course en Sac (short)
Le Déjeuner du Chat (short)
Départ en Voiture (short)
Discussion de Monsieur Janssen et de Monsieur
Lagrange (short)
Enfants aux Jouets / USA: Children at Play
(short)
Les Forgerons / USA: The Blacksmiths (short)
Lancement d’un Navire à la Ciotat (short)
Lyon, Place Bellecour (short)
Le Maréchal-Ferrant (short)
La Mer / USA: The Sea (short)
Partie de Boules (short)
Partie de Cartes / UK: Card Game / USA: The
Messers. Lumière at Cards (short)
Partie de Tric-Trac (short)
La Pêche aux Poissons rouges (short)
Photographe (short)
La Place des Cordeliers à Lyon / USA: Cordeliers’
Square in Lyon (short)
Promenade des Congressistes sur le Bord de
Saône (short)
Querelle enfantine (short)
Récréation à la Martinière (short)
Repas de Bébé / Le Goûter de Bébé / UK: Baby’s
Meal / USA: Baby’s Dinner / Feeding the Baby
(short)
Le Saut à la Couverture / Brimade dans une
Caserne (short)
La Voltige (short)
1896 Arrivée d’un Train à la Ciotat / L’Arrivée d’un Train
en Gare de la Ciotat / UK: The Arrival of the
Mail Train / USA: Arrival of a Train at la Ciotat
(short)
Les Bains de Diane à Milan (short)
Champs-Elysées (short)
Cologne: Sortie de la Cathédrale (short)
Démolition d’un Mur / USA: Demolition of a Wall
(short)
Entrée du Cinématographe (short)
Genève (Exposition 1896): Rentrée à l’Etable
(short)
Mauvaises Herbes (short)
Melbourne (short)
Pont de la Tour (short)
Le Tsar Nicolas II à Paris (short)
1897 Arrivée d’un Bateau en Mer (short)
Baignade en Mer (short)
Bal d’Enfants (short)
Concours de Boules (short)
Départ de Jérusalem en Chemin de Fer / UK and
USA: Leaving Jerusalem by Railway (short)
Douche après le Bain / UK and USA: Shower
After the Bath (short)
Embarquement pour la Promenade (short)
Enfant et Chien (short)
Enfant au Bord de Mer / USA: The Children’s
Seaside Frolic (short)
Jean qui pleure et Jean qui rit (short)
Laveuses (short)