Louis Lumière Movies

A group of four children, circle dancing.

Four Ainu men, performing a traditional dance, somewhere near Muroran, Hokkaido.

A boat returns to port, where passengers are helped ashore.

Porters bring goods into a warehouse.

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

Three women get in a horse-drawn carriage, as servants load luggage on the roof, before it pulls away.

Movement of pedestrians, cabs, carts and trams at the crossroads of two avenues.

A remake of L'Arrivée d'un Train en gare de La Ciotat made with a stereoscopic film camera, exhibited along with a series of other 3D shorts...

An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé...

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a...

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching...

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along...

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.