Louis Lumière Movies

Descent of the Great Pyramid.

The king of Cambodia visits a palace.

A Chinese dragon parade.

Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.

A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.

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...

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

A group of young women and children enjoy a rowdy picnic in the countryside.

A clergyman is startled by a group of automatons.

A small boat is approaching waterfalls, shrouded in thick fog, in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland.

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

Three older men, wearing hats and smoking cigars, are sitting at a patio. Two of the men are playing cards at a table while the third man sits...

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...

A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.