Louis Lumière Movies

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

A stationary camera looks across Burgundy's river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground,...

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

In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The aim is to break down the usual clichéd...

A Berlin street scene.

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...

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

The second Kremo family acrobat film for the Lumiere. Involves one gag in which the adult is simultaeously flipping two children with his legs.

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.

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

Porters bring goods into a warehouse.

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

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