In 1995, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the invention of the Cinématographe, the first motion-picture camera that served also as a projector, forty film directors were asked to each contribute a short film, following a specific set of limitations. Using the original camera patented by Louis Lumière and Auguste Lumière, David Lynch entwines the ordinary with the extraordinary, in three "takes". After the gruesome discovery of a dead body by three police officers, a woman in a living room starts to feel that something is wrong. Then, a trio of scantily-clad women walk toward the camera, and in a flash of smoke, the viewer is transported to an eerie laboratory, to see something that should not be seen. In the end, the camera returns to the room from the second take, and the policeman informs the distraught woman of his findings, as the shadow of a sinister figure lingers in the window. The short films were released as the anthology film, Lumière et compagnie (1995).