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A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding Baby her lunch, while Mum is serving tea.
One of the earliest films ever made by the Lumière brothers, 'Baby's Meal' (Le Repas de bébé) is a landmark of cinema history. Its novelty is extraordinary — not for dramatic invention but for being among the first moving images of everyday domestic life, establishing the documentary impulse in film. The cinematography is surprisingly considered for 1895, capturing natural outdoor light and spontaneous movement with a fixed but well-composed shot. Plot and acting are essentially non-existent by modern standards, as it is an unscripted slice of life. The ending is simply the footage running out. Its historical singularity earns it the highest novelty rating possible.