Lumiere Movies

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

A stationary camera placed amidships looks toward the round end of a 10- or 12-foot boiler that's been loaded onto the open deck. Three men climb down...

A man in a diving suit emerges.

Carriages and crowds cross a grassy area.

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

View of the Westminster Bridge.

A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.

Children dig for clams on the beach

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

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

Descent of the Great Pyramid.

The Count of Montebello and General de Boisdeffre arrive at the coronation of Nicholas II of Russia.

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

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

A short black and white film by the Lumiere brothers which captures the crowd at the Cologne Cathedral after the main religious services.

At the start line of the Lyon-Geneva bicycle race.

Women hauling coke in wheelbarrows.