Lumiere Movies

A review of the Republican Guard and firemen at Longchamp filmed by the Lumière brothers.

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

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...

Panorama of a mountainside railroad.

Two fighters, in traditional costume, taking part to the national kendo tournament.

A Berlin street scene.

A group of acrobats form human pyramids.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about 20...

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.

A Japanese family having tea.

A shot of a street in Lyon, people passing, horses etc

A roller skater performs a series of eccentric exercises.

Three people playing cards.

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

The end of the Longchamp parade and departure of the President, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

An early short film from the Lumière brothers.