Louis Lumière Movies

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

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...

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to...

The quadrille enter the arena with alguazils leading the paseíllo.

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

Porters carry baskets full of fish, while others carry bundles, on their shoulders, in Yokohama harbor.

Within a printing (printing a test).

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

A funeral parade in Cairo.

A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

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

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

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...

Short from (1897)

A Chinese dragon parade.