Louis Lumière Movies

Sovereign Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna and President Félix Faure, walking by, followed by their respective escorts.

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along...

Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

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...

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...

Small glimpse of Paris city life.

In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a...

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

Within a printing (printing a test).

Young people dive into the sea by jumping off a manmade wooden raft, while a small boat loaded with passengers passes by.

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

A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.

With a crowded arena in the background, a stationary camera records a bull charging a picador astride his horse. An attendant on foot throws stones...

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...

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

The first travelling shot.

Descent of the Great Pyramid.