Louis Lumière Movies

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...

Students in Lyon.

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...

Panoramic film from the Lumiere Catalogue.

Street scene: Arch de Triumph.

The end of the Longchamp parade and departure of the President, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

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

Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.

A Paris street scene.

The view represents a street in Paris along which pumps descend drawn by horses; the crowd follows en masse.

A stationary camera looks across Burgundy's river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground,...

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

The first travelling shot.

A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.

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

Descent of the Great Pyramid.

The Swedish Royal family arrives at the General Art and Industrial Exposition at Djurgården in Stockholm on 15 May 1897.

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

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