Louis Lumière Movies

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...

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

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

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

A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets...

A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him....

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

Within a printing (printing a test).

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...

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to...

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a...

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

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

Short of the Tuileries.

Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.