Société Lumière Movies

Three girls and a boy playing with their toys.

Pedestrian and rickshaws traffic on Shijo Kobashi bridge, in Kyoto.

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 and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy then lifts his foot from the hose, whereby the water squirts up in the...

Harlequin is walking in a garden with Columbine. As he moves away to the distance and leaves her on her own, Mephisto appears, from inside a well, and tries to woo her. Will Harlequin get back in time and rescue her?

Lancers parading, during the inauguration ceremony of William I's monument in Breslau, Germany (nowadays Wroclaw, Poland).

Elena of Montenegro and Victor Emmanuel III, followed by their escort.

Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, on horseback, parade in front of the cheering crowd, during the inauguration ceremony of William I's monument in Breslau, Germany (nowadays Wroclaw, Poland).

A young man explains to a small boy how to ride a bicycle.

Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes.

Two children, playing in the garden, with a dog and a cat.

A magician performs various tricks.

A French family consisting of father, mother and two children, sitting around a table and eating a meal.

Dense pedestrian, trams and cars traffic on the street, in front of the Palais de la Bourse in Marseille.

Groups of men and women, parading in Interlaken, Switzerland, some of them carrying banners.

A magician enters a café and sets about introducing his act, but a waiter interferes and throws him out the door. Disgruntled, the magician decides to take revenge, and he has more than one trick up his sleeve.

The waterfalls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland, form a cloud of suspended droplets.

A short film from the Lumière brothers showing crowds walking.

Panorama of the battleships "Sardegna" and "Sicilia" at the naval review of Cagliari.

A cook mistakenly throws his kitchen boy into a huge pot while preparing a stew. Distraught, he attempts to make up for his mistake. Alas, Mephisto decides to get involved.