Louis Lumière Movies

Lumière's documents life in Palestine.

People enjoying themselves in a swimming pool.

A group of highly skilled acrobats perform.

Lumiere short

Filmed in 1896 by the Lumière brothers, this short actuality captures a dramatic cavalry charge by cuirassiers — heavily armed horsemen...

Panorama of Nice from the deck of a ship.

Fishermen, sitting by a boat, are mending nets.

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

People dismount and mount a gondola.

People waiting in line for, what one can only assume, a Lumiere production.

Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.

Street scene: Arch de Triumph.

A jousting event.

The product of the mind of a jokester. The mind of a director, too. Props and gags, slow rhythm like Laurel and Hardy, and conscientious actors who...