Louis Lumière Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching...

Two girls do one of their chores. Standing alongside a tree-lined farmhouse, two children who are about ten and four years old toss grain to a flock...

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

A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the...

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...

A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

A group of people cross a mountain near Chamonix and are filmed doing so by the Lumière brothers.

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

Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park.

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

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.