Louis Lumière Movies

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

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

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

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

Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to jump...

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

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

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the...

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

In the foreground, smoke billows. Four horse-drawn fire wagons approach and pass in front of a stationary camera. Two horses draw each wagon, and...

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...

The facade and the traffic in front of the Cinematographe in London, close to the large ensign of the historical Empire Theatre, in London.

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.

Passengers leaving a ship in Lyon.

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left)....

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

Friends and relatives playing a game of boules, arguing about who's team is winning.