Louis Lumière Movies

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

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

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

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

Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.

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

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

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

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

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

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...

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

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

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

One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.

A crowd of spectators listen to President William McKinley's speech during his inauguration ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.