Auguste and Louis Lumière
Lion, London Zoological Gardens () is a 1896 French short black-and-white silent actuality film, produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière and directed by Alexandre Promio, featuring a male lion reaching through the bars of its enclosure at London Zoological Gardens to get at the meat thrown by its keeper. The film was part of a series, including "Tigers" and "Pelicans", which were one of the earliest examples of animal life on film.