Louis Lumière Movies

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 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 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...

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along...

Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.

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

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

One minute film of Buffalo Bill's famous show.

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot...

A film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the...

The rough sea crashing upon rocks.

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 battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A man is manoeuvring a handcart bearing the...

Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.

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...

American Indians dancing.

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

The first travelling shot.