Louis Lumière Movies

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

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

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

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a...

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...

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

Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.

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...

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

Short of the Tuileries.

An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

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

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...

Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park.

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

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 maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.