Louis Lumière Movies

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

With a crowded arena in the background, a stationary camera records a bull charging a picador astride his horse. An attendant on foot throws stones...

Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.

A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on the...

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

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

A group of ten infant girls are on a playground. They are in pairs, matched in height. They are doing an organised dance. Each pair twirls...

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

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...

American Indians dancing.

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

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

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.