Louis Lumière Movies

Three girls and a boy playing with their toys.

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

A remake of L'Arrivée d'un Train en gare de La Ciotat made with a stereoscopic film camera, exhibited along with a series of other 3D shorts by Louis Lumière at a 1935 meeting of the French Academy of Science.

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

A short film

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.

An early Algerian film depicting donkeys

Street scene in Liverpool.

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell cat, with long hair and a very furry tail, has leapt onto the table.

A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on the turret suggests that this view was shot in the vicinity of Saint-Chamond, a town where there are factories specializing in the construction of heavy steel. It is...

This street scene from Bethlehem shows a crowd of locals jumping on something in the middle of camera range. What are they seeking? The implication seems to be that they are beggars jumping on a handful of alms tossed onto the spot and the effect is simultaneously funny and sad.