Louis Lumière Movies

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

Short of the Tuileries.

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the...

The first travelling shot.

[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of...

Pedestrian, trams, carriages and carts traffic at the intersection of two streets on La Canebière in Marseille.

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

Several competitors take part in a friendly sack race, with widely varying degrees of success.

Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.

Friends and relatives playing a game of boules, arguing about who's team is winning.

A remake of L'Arrivée d'un Train made with a stereoscopic film camera, exhibited along with a series of other 3D shorts by Louis...

The Count of Montebello and General de Boisdeffre arrive at the coronation of Nicholas II of Russia.

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.

A mother takes her children for a walk, lifts her baby girl out of the buggy and gently sets her down to the ground. She then moves a few steps away...

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to...

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...