Louis Lumière Movies

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

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

A bunch of guys pulling a long rope out of the water, never revealing what its attached to.

Two lines of workers, pulling a steamroller, somewhere in the streets of Saigon, Vietnam (nowadays, Ho Chi Minh City).

Asian and Near Eastern diplomats and royalty file past the camera on their way to the coronation of Czar Nicholas II of Russia.

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

A Lumière Brothers short film showing a street scene in Paris.

A bout between a tall man and a dwarf.

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

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...

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

Three girls and a boy playing with their toys.

Women hauling coke in wheelbarrows.

A group of highly skilled acrobats perform.

A sorcerer conjures an old witch and instructs her to seek a maiden. Said maiden is assigned with the task to lure a young traveler inside the...

Street scene: Arch de Triumph.