Louis Lumière Movies

Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along...

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...

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 bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot...

Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.

A street scene in Munich from the Lumière Brothers.

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

Children dig for clams on the beach

Félicien Trewey swirls a large white ribbon around him.

A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on the...