Louis Lumière Movies

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...

A Japanese family having tea.

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the...

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

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

A street scene in Berlin near Hallesches Tor.

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

The rough sea crashing upon rocks.

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The aim is to break down the usual clichéd...

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

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

Women getting onto a rickshaw.