Lumiere Movies

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

Lumière Brothers film automobiles driving at the Champs-Elysées.

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

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

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

A man plays the trombone, to which is attached a saw.

Children dig for clams on the beach

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

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

Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.

Panorama of a mountainside railroad.

People waiting in line for, what one can only assume, a Lumiere production.

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

A group of acrobats form human pyramids.

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...

Boys diving into a river.

A Paris street scene.