Louis Lumière Movies

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

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

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.

Small glimpse of Paris city life.

Short film by Lumière of people disembarking from a boat at the port of nice.

A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets...

While the crowd slowly moves forward, a company of guards and the Imperial dais enter the church.

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

A funeral parade in Cairo.

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

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

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

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by...

A group of ten infant girls are on a playground. They are in pairs, matched in height. They are doing an organised dance. Each pair twirls...

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