Louis Lumière Movies

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

Students in Lyon.

People dismount and mount a gondola.

A gentleman having lunch at a hostelry experiences all kinds of mishaps.

King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy stepping down a staircase, followed by their escort, before climbing into a horse-drawn carriage.

At the start line of the Lyon-Geneva bicycle race.

Children dig for clams on the beach

A short film from the Lumière brothers, filmed in a Dresden street.

A Japanese family having tea.

Game of marbles between four or five boys.

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.

While the crowd slowly moves forward, a company of guards and the Imperial dais enter the church.

A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets...

A short clip of United States military on horses

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

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be...