Louis Lumière Movies

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

Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.

Porters bring goods into a warehouse.

Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

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

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

Three young women dance in Drury Lane, London.

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary...

A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.

A group of children in a pillow fight.

Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes.

With a crowded arena in the background, a stationary camera records a bull charging a picador astride his horse. An attendant on foot throws stones...

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...

Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.