Louis Lumière Movies

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

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...

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

Another parade film from the Lumiere company.

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

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...

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...

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...

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

A funeral parade in Cairo.

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

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

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

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

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

The first travelling shot.