Louis Lumière Movies

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

The first travelling shot.

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...

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

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

A group of black youths jumping from a dock into the water.

A film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the...

Young people dive into the sea by jumping off a manmade wooden raft, while a small boat loaded with passengers passes by.

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

Two girls do one of their chores. Standing alongside a tree-lined farmhouse, two children who are about ten and four years old toss grain to a flock...

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.

Friends and relatives playing a game of boules, arguing about who's team is winning.

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

The facade and the traffic in front of the Cinematographe in London, close to the large ensign of the historical Empire Theatre, in London.

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

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...

New York, travelers descent of the Brooklyn Bridge