Louis Lumière Movies

The first travelling shot.

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

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

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....

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

In the foreground, smoke billows. Four horse-drawn fire wagons approach and pass in front of a stationary camera. Two horses draw each wagon, and...

A funeral parade in Cairo.

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 his bare hands.

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

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

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

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

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...

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 review of engineers at the Longchamp parade, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

Two babies are shown seated next to each other, in high chairs, apparently enjoying themselves. Suddenly one snatches a toy from the other and they...