Louis Lumière Movies

Short film from (1897)

Promotional film for Sunlight brand soap.

On the terrace of a villa, a violinist, two pianists and a singer are playing, until they are interrupted by a false note.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about...

A man in a diving suit emerges.

Circulation of passers-by and cars in the paved street on the occasion of the Tsar's coronation.

Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.

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 small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

Fishermen at the port of La Ciotat load their nets onto a boat, preparing to head out to sea. This early Lumière actuality captures a glimpse...

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....

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

A stationary camera placed amidships looks toward the round end of a 10- or 12-foot boiler that's been loaded onto the open deck. Three men climb...

Short film by Lumière of people disembarking from a boat at the port of nice.

Officers and soldiers, followed by a military band, parade in front of decorated grandstands.

A royal wedding procession.

An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.