Louis Lumière Movies

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

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

A funeral parade in Cairo.

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....

[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of...

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

Panorama of the docks, the city and the bridge of a boat sailing the Rhine river in Cologne, Germany.

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...

Show of Mexican ranchers catching cows.

Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.

Within a printing (printing a test).

A friendly card game goes sour fast.

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...

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...