Louis Lumière Movies

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...

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.

These three scenes were inspired from a comedy in four acts of the same name by Edmond Audran, performed for the first time at the...

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

Skating scene.

Harlequin is walking in a garden with Columbine. As he moves away to the distance and leaves her on her own, Mephisto appears, from inside a well,...

A magician enters a café and sets about introducing his act, but a waiter interferes and throws him out the door. Disgruntled, the magician...

A girl in a Sevillian dress dances to the sound of music played a couple of men at the "Féria Sevillanos" [sic] during the Exposition...

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...

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...

A sorcerer conjures an old witch and instructs her to seek a maiden. Said maiden is assigned with the task to lure a young traveler inside the...

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

A kitten plays with a small piece of wood attached to a string.