Louis Lumière Movies

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a...

Two babies are shown seated next to each other, in high chairs, apparently enjoying themselves. Suddenly one snatches a toy from the other and they...

Within a printing (printing a test).

A large wedding procession.

A mother takes her children for a walk, lifts her baby girl out of the buggy and gently sets her down to the ground. She then moves a few steps away...

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

A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the...

A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on the...

Panoramic film from the Lumiere Catalogue.

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

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

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

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

Young people dive into the sea by jumping off a manmade wooden raft, while a small boat loaded with passengers passes by.

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...

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

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

A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him....

Friends and relatives playing a game of boules, arguing about who's team is winning.