Louis Lumière Movies

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

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

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.

A stationary camera looks across Burgundy's river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground,...

A man and a woman dance "jarabe tapatío" while some people watch.

A Berlin street scene.

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...

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.

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