Louis Lumière Movies

View of the Westminster Bridge.

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot...

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about...

Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes.

Three women get in a horse-drawn carriage, as servants load luggage on the roof, before it pulls away.

In the foreground, smoke billows. Four horse-drawn fire wagons approach and pass in front of a stationary camera. Two horses draw each wagon, and...

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...

Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart.

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

A group of tambours and dancers in traditional outfits pass the camera.

Back from fishing, fishermen in a boat pull out sardines caught in the net.

Show of Mexican ranchers catching cows.

A short black and white film by the Lumiere brothers which captures the crowd at the Cologne Cathedral after the main religious services.

People dismount and mount a gondola.

Lumière Brothers film automobiles driving at the Champs-Elysées.