Lumière and Company (original title: ) is a 1995 anthology film made in collaboration between forty-one international film directors. The project consists of short films made by each of the filmmakers using the original camera invented by the Lumière brothers. The shorts were edited in-camera and constrained by three rules: A short may be no longer than 52 seconds No synchronized sound No more than three takes Directors Summary Patrice Leconte: A recreation of L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat 100 years later at the same station. Gabriel Axel: The evolution of the arts is shown, culminating in cinema. Then, two men shoot each other in a duel. Claude Miller: A girl is repeatedly pushed off a scale by others, before a man picks her up and puts her on his shoulders before getting on the scale. Jacques Rivette: A girl plays hopscotch while a woman roller-skates. The roller-skating woman collides with a man reading a newspaper. Michael Haneke: Various shots of TV news on March 19, 1995, exactly 100 years after the filming of L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat. Fernando Trueba: Felix Romero, A conscientious objector who has refused to partake in Spanish military service, departs from a prison in Zaragoza. Merzak Allouache: A couple walk through a park and notice the camera. They both examine it before the man shoves the woman out of the way. Raymond Depardon: Children use a ladder to put a hat on top of a large statue. Wim Wenders: Two men examine a cityscape. Jaco Van Dormael: A smiling couple kiss. Nadine Trintignant: Tourists wander around the courtyard of the Louvre. Régis Wargnier: A man in a park walks toward the camera. Voiceover recollects a scene from a film. Hugh Hudson: Japanese schoolchildren in Hiroshima visit a monument. Audio from news reports of the bombing of Hiroshima plays. Zhang Yimou: A man plays a traditional Chinese bowed musical instrument while a woman dances. They switch from their traditional clothing to punk fashion and the man plays a guitar while the woman thrashes her head. Liv Ullmann: Cinematographer Sven Nykvist operates his camera. Vicente Aranda: A victory parade drives through the street. Lucian Pintilie: People climb into a helicopter. The helicopter lifts off. John Boorman: Behind-the-scenes of the filming of Michael Collins. Claude Lelouch: A couple embraces as various camera crews move around them. Abbas Kiarostami: An egg fries