Louis Lumière Movies

The President of France and entourage on a pier's promenade.

A girl in a Sevillian dress dances to the sound of music played a couple of men at the "Féria Sevillanos" [sic] during the Exposition...

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

Panoramic view of Constantinople.

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

Short made in Mexico.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

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...

Three young women dance in Drury Lane, London.

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

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

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

Students in Lyon.

A street scene in Belfast showing several horse-drawn omnibuses.

More 19th century city life.

A short film from the Lumière brothers, filmed in a Dresden street.

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