Lumiere Movies

Young people dive into the sea by jumping off a manmade wooden raft, while a small boat loaded with passengers passes by.

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...

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

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

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

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

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 accomplished...

The first travelling shot.

Three women get in a horse-drawn carriage, as servants load luggage on the roof, before it pulls away.

At the launch of a ship, of which we can only see the hull, the audience moves aside.

A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him....

A group of tambours and dancers in traditional outfits pass the camera.

Small glimpse of Paris city life.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

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

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary writer, Je...

A group of people cross a mountain near Chamonix and are filmed doing so by the Lumière brothers.

Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruinous relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long marriage with divorce. When they b...

A group of workers, aided by a steam-roller, are leveling the ground during the construction of the Jonage canal, a diversion of the Rhône river, whic...