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...

Procession on a Budapest street.

A Japanese family having tea.

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

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

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

A Berlin street scene.

Descent of the Great Pyramid.

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.

Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about...

Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.

A wedding party leave church in this Lumière brothers' short film.

Panoramic film from the Lumiere Catalogue.

President Félix Faure, escorted by horsemen, marching past the troops at Longchamp.

A group of young women and children enjoy a rowdy picnic in the countryside.

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

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.

A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her.