Lumiere Movies

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 sm...

An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé de l’artillerie turque...

A large pool in Milan has diving boards set at different heights. As some people watch from along the pool's edge, others enjoy themselves by diving i...

A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire...

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

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

Dragons escorting officers on horseback.

Two old female mattress makers get into a fight until a passing man attempts to break them up.

A man in a diving suit emerges.

Boys diving into a river.

A religious procession during the Holy Week in Seville, Spain.

A Lumière Brothers film showing a street scene in Budapest.

First of a series of films showing visitors to the Paris Exposition 1900 standing on a mobile wooden platform.

Women hauling coke in wheelbarrows.

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.

A Paris street scene.

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

A royal wedding procession.