One of the earliest recordings made by the brothers Lumière, Le Repas de bébé (catalogued as Vue no.

The company's catalog described it as "Un papa fait avaler son déjeuner à un bébé" (a father feeds lunch [or breakfast] to a baby) and records that the scene was taken between March 22 and June 10, 1895.

[1] 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.

Louis Lumière photographed the family trio using the newly-invented Cinématographe, a square box-like camera, which also served as a film projector and developer.

The scene connotes the culture of a bourgeois family, with a silver tea service, a bottle of cognac, and fine clothing.

It also forms part of the documentary Visions of Light (1992) and Ann Hu's Chinese feature film Shadow Magic (2000).

In July 1896, Russian writer Maxim Gorky saw a Cinématographe program outside of Moscow and published an account that mentioned the film.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès told G.-Michel Coissac – author of Histoire du cinematographe (1925) – that he was at the first Paris screening in 1895, at which he and others were struck by the sensation of seeing the trees swaying in the wind.