Louis Lumière Movies

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...

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to jump...

The first travelling shot.

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.

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...

Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by...

A large wedding procession.

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...

Within a printing (printing a test).

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

While the crowd slowly moves forward, a company of guards and the Imperial dais enter the church.

Passengers leaving a ship in Lyon.

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

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