Louis Lumière Movies

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.

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

Three young women dance in Drury Lane, London.

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...

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...

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 woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by...

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along...

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

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

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...

Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.

In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching...

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary...

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

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.