Louis Lumière Movies

Small glimpse of Paris city life.

A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on the...

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

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

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

Motor cars of different models, drivers, passengers and observers, all filmed from the starting line of the Paris-Meulan race.

Three girls and a boy playing with their toys.

A boat returns to port, where passengers are helped ashore.

Three women get in a horse-drawn carriage, as servants load luggage on the roof, before it pulls away.

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

Three young women dance in Drury Lane, London.

Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by...

Carriages and crowds cross a grassy area.

An early short film from the Lumière brothers.

Street scene: Arch de Triumph.

With a crowded arena in the background, a stationary camera records a bull charging a picador astride his horse. An attendant on foot throws stones...

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