Baby’s Lunch

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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 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 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.

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