Directed byAuguste et Louis Lumière, Auguste Lumière OriginFrance GenresComedy, Documentary, Action Rating66% The camera is centred on a pathway made through a snow-covered city street. On both side of the pathway, several men and women are engaged in a snowball fight. A cyclist comes forward upon the path towards the fight, and is hit by a couple snowballs as he approaches. He continues riding towards the snowball-armed melee and is struck successively by several nearby participants as he comes between them, losing control of his bicycle and falling to the ground. His cap is flung onto the pathway. One male participant in the engagement grabs a hold of the cyclist's bicycle and lifts it off the ground, and the fallen cyclist scrambles to his feet and yanks his bicycle away from the participant. After retrieving possession of his bicycle, the cyclist gets atop and rides away from the fight in the same direction he came from. He leaves his cap behind at the scene of his fall.
Directed byAuguste et Louis Lumière, Alice Guy-Blaché OriginFrance GenresComedy Rating70% Shot in Lyon in the spring of 1895, the film portrays a simple practical joke in which a gardener is tormented by a boy who steps on the hose that the gardener is using to water his plants, cutting off the water flow. When the gardener tilts the nozzle up to inspect it, the boy releases the hose, causing the water to spray him. The gardener is stunned and his hat is knocked off, but he soon catches on. A chase ensues, both on and off-screen (the camera never moves from its original position) until the gardener catches the boy and administers a spanking. The entire film lasts only 49 seconds, but this simple bit of slapstick may be the forerunner of all subsequent film comedy.
Directed byAuguste et Louis Lumière OriginFrance GenresDrama, Documentary ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about technology Rating58% L'extrémité d'une digue, avec des enfants et des femmes en habit traditionnel. Une barque entre dans le champ de la caméra par la droite, souquée par deux hommes dirigés par un troisième. L'esquif tente de contourner la pointe de la digue, mais la houle la repousse, la met de travers et le contournement est interrompu par la fin du bobineau de pellicule.
Directed byAuguste et Louis Lumière OriginFrance GenresDocumentary ThemesFilms about the labor movement, Documentaire sur le monde du travail Rating51% Two men stand working as blacksmiths. The one on the left of the screen repeatedly hammers an anvil while the man on the right winds a device. The man of the left then removes the metal he was hammering and places it into a bucket of water. At the end of the film a third man walks onto the screen from the left, with a wine glass and bottle in hand, hands the glass to the smith at the anvil, and begins to pour him a drink.
Directed byAuguste et Louis Lumière OriginFrance GenresDocumentary ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films Rating56% This 38 second film has a very simple plot in which five men dive repeatedly into stormy water. The men walk along a jetty and then dive into the water, only to then swim to the shore line and repeat the process again.