Louis Lumière Movies

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.

A Japanese family having tea.

Lumière's documents life in Palestine.

A view of the Great Sphinx with two of Giza's pyramids in the background. A caravan passes the scene.

A girl in a Sevillian dress dances to the sound of music played a couple of men at the "Féria Sevillanos" [sic] during the Exposition...

Jumping the Blanket.

Another street scene of daily life.

Panoramic view of Constantinople.

Four men tie ropes to a log and then pull it to the shore.

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...

Panorama of Constantinople from the river.

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

A short black and white film in which a fixed camera records a busy New York street, Broadway.

A Paris street scene.

Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be...

Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.