Louis Lumière Movies

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

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

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

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.

The second Kremo family acrobat film for the Lumiere. Involves one gag in which the adult is simultaeously flipping two children with his legs.

Two girls do one of their chores. Standing alongside a tree-lined farmhouse, two children who are about ten and four years old toss grain to a flock...

Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the 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 film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the...

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

A group of ten infant girls are on a playground. They are in pairs, matched in height. They are doing an organised dance. Each pair twirls...

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

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 father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding Baby her lunch, while Mum is serving tea.

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to jump...

A Berlin street scene.

Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.