Louis Lumière Movies

The waterfalls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland, form a cloud of suspended droplets.

A short documentary clip released by Pathé Frères.

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....

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.

Rollerskating in Central Park.

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

Children dig for clams on the beach

A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.

Louis Daguerre invented the image, Louis Lumière was the first filmmaker. The rest is language.

President Félix Faure, escorted by horsemen, marching past the troops at Longchamp.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

Teasing tigers with meat.

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

More 19th century city life.