Louis Lumière Movies

Two fighters, in traditional costume, taking part to the national kendo tournament.

A procession of men and women in different groups, some of whom are carrying banners.

Film shot from a ship at sea.

A mounted Mexican president poses for the camera.

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

A merchant is giving a demonstration of his lifelike automatons to a bedazzled customer. Could these "larger than life" clockwork figures look too...

Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.

A short black and white film in which a fixed camera records a busy New York street, Broadway.

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.

A small boat is approaching waterfalls, shrouded in thick fog, in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland.

Parade of hunters and Spahis.

Released on October 4, 1896 in Lyon ( France ) under the title “ Fêtes de l'inauguration du monument de Guillaume Ier à Breslau :...

"These rocks, near Biarritz, are very well known. The scene shows the rough sea hitting their feet. There are no characters." Lumiere brothers

Short actuality capturing an elephant procession in the streets of Phnom Penh: elephants bearing riders, walking through public space in procession,...

“These views [cf. No. 349 to 353] were taken at the New Circus in Paris and represent the various movements of the Cake-Walk executed by a...