Louis Lumière Movies

Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.

Filmed in Stuttgart in 1896, this Lumière actuality shows cavalrymen of the 26th Dragoons regiment leaping their horses over a low obstacle...

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left)....

View coming down a hill towards a river.

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

A group of four children, circle dancing.

A horse-drawn carriage stops in front of a villa. The residents greet the newcomers, as the coach driver unloads baggages.

Japanese actors act out an early martial arts weapons scene.

Street scene: Arch de Triumph.

A crowd of spectators listen to President William McKinley's speech during his inauguration ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

Children enjoying the seaside.

More 19th century city life.