Louis Lumière Movies

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

Angelic and demonic serpentine dance from dawn of cinema. Hand-colored frame by frame. Lumière no. 765 or 765.1 (colorized, different...

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

The first travelling shot.

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...

While the crowd slowly moves forward, a company of guards and the Imperial dais enter the church.

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 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...

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

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

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....

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

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...

The facade and the traffic in front of the Cinematographe in London, close to the large ensign of the historical Empire Theatre, in London.

At the launch of a ship, of which we can only see the hull, the audience moves aside.

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

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