Louis Lumière Movies

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

Lost film.

A crowd of passers-by is granted access to a drawbridge by its gatekeeper.

Children are playing with sailboats on the pond.

Vehicles are circulating on the Champs-Élysées, and some pedestrians are trying to cross.

Heavy pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the square.

A group of black youths jumping from a dock into the water.

A short skit in which vaudeville duo Foottit and Chocolat reenact the Wilhelm Tell routine.

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

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

Parade of a regiment of lancers.

Gymnasts take turns jumping, one after the other, with varying degrees of success.

Two men armed with a knifes perform a ritualized knife fight with the accompaniment of drums and hand clapping.

This view depicts a scene of a boat rapidly descending onto rails and plunging into a basin filled with water; the passengers then disembark.