Louis Lumière Movies

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

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

Sheep pass through a gate and enter a courtyard; a man counts them in passing.

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

An oddly routed parade.

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

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

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

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

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

At the start line of the Lyon-Geneva bicycle race.

Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.

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

[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of...

Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.

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...

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...

A girl in a Sevillian dress dances to the sound of music played a couple of men at the "Féria Sevillanos" [sic] during the Exposition...