Louis Lumière Movies

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

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...

Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.

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...

The first travelling shot.

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...

American Indians dancing.

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

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

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her.

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary...

A funeral parade in Cairo.

A Berlin street scene.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

Game of marbles between four or five boys.