Louis Lumière Movies

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

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...

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

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...

A funeral parade in Cairo.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

Three women get in a horse-drawn carriage, as servants load luggage on the roof, before it pulls away.

Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train...

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...

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

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

A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him....

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left)....