Louis Lumière Movies

The scene takes place outside a café. Two workers are desperate to be served drinks, and the owner is forced to call in a policeman, who has...

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a...

Inside an operating room, a surgeon performs several procedures of "modern" surgery.

A Lumière Brothers short film.

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium of the foundation of the kingdom of Hungary....

In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

The product of the mind of a jokester. The mind of a director, too. Props and gags, slow rhythm like Laurel and Hardy, and conscientious actors who...

Early silent film

Lumière Catalogue No. 706. A moving shot taken from the electric train in Liverpool. Its vantage reveals ships and lumberyards.

Several fire-carriages, presumably heading to a fire.