Louis Lumière Movies

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as...

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

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the...

A Japanese family having tea.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

The rough sea crashing upon rocks.

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The aim is to break down the usual clichéd...

Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.

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...

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...

Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

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

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.