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40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.

Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.

The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.

A train arrives at La Ciotat station.

An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already packaged for sale.

The photographers who need to participate in the congress of Lyon get off a boat in Neuville-sur-Saône, dividing to the right and left.

Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson's thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds film industry started in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 1888.

Four workers demolish an old factory wall. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of dust whirls up. Three workers continue with picks.

As part of a maiden public film screening at the Salon Indien, on December 28, in Paris, Auguste Lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon.

A short black and white film which documents the activities of a little girl and her cat.

Two men play cards, as a third watches and a waiter brings drinks. The third man pours drinks as the waiter laughs.

Angelic and demonic serpentine dances from dawn of cinema by the Lumière Brothers film, called the Serpentine Dance. The dancer is Loie Fuller; the pioneer modern dancer. Recorded in 1896 in Paris, and hand-colored frame by frame.

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

People start a snowball fight on a street in Lyons, France.

A baby held by his father dips his little hands into a water jug and he can' t catch the goldfish .

Short that depicts a moment at the busy Cordeliers' Square in Lyon. It is a busy thoroughfare, with pedestrians walking in front of the buildings and crossing the boulevard between horse-drawn vehicles. A double-decker bus passes in front.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

Remarkable Lumière short that shows a beautiful aquarium with fish inside and can be considered as the first aquarium video ever who become quite popular about a 100 years later.

A train is leaving a railway station at the outskirts of Jerusalem. From the very end of the train a barren, rocky landscape is seen, and some ruins of very old buildings,. Five men walk along the track, tipping their hats when the train departs. When it approaches the station building more people are seen, people of different ethnicity and religion. Some men wear fezzes on their heads and canes in their hands. A Franciscan monk comes walking in the middle of a mixed group of people. The platform outside the station is crowded with people waiting for the next train. Among them is a man with a sword at his side. The big windows of the station are covered with shutters. After the station the train passes a long fence, enclosing a lumberyard.

The transformation of the same character in six different characters. A vision of the act of transformation.

A man tries to get on a horse , but he climbs to one side and falls from the other, until he manages to stay in balance.

Three men in a rowboat are leaving the harbor.

Two blacksmiths work while the vapors rise in the air. Later, another man arrives and offers a drink.