Louis Lumière Filmes

Shot in 1896, this playful actuality captures workers from the Lumière factory in Lyon competing in a sack race. The scene shows the...

Traffic of pedestrians, carts and trams on a Washington avenue.

View of the German and Italian royal processions, at the iron mines of Monteponi.

The view represents a street in Paris along which pumps descend drawn by horses; the crowd follows en masse.

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.

A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart. Not to be confused with "Transport d’une tourelle par un attelage de...

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

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

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

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.