Louis Lumière Movies

Film shot from a ship at sea.

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

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

Procession on a Budapest street.

A battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A man is manoeuvring a handcart bearing the...

A French family consisting of father, mother and two children, sitting around a table and eating a meal.

Two men, arguing about the content of a newspaper article, come to blows.

A stationary camera looks across Burgundy's river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground,...

The launching of the ship Varèse in Livourne.

An oddly routed parade.

A cockfight.

A short clip of street life in the French village Chamonix.

Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.

A stationary camera placed amidships looks toward the round end of a 10- or 12-foot boiler that's been loaded onto the open deck. Three men climb...

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

Mexicans lassoing a horse.

Two housemaids, arguing, start to fight : a houseboy steps in to separate them, and in doing so becomes their target and is literally torn apart....