Louis Lumière Movies

Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train...

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by...

In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a...

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

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 trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

A short film from the Lumière brothers, filmed in a Dresden street.

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 man performs a balancing act with a ball and a pair of sticks.

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 boat returns to port, where passengers are helped ashore.

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

Within a printing (printing a test).

A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

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...

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

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.