Snowball Fight
Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along...
See moreBocal aux poissons rouges
[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of cinema has...
See moreFishing for Goldfish
A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with his bare hands.
See moreCarpenters
In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.
See moreRetour d’une promenade en mer
A boat returns to port, where passengers are helped ashore.
See morePanorama de l'arrivée en gare de Perrache pris du train
A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.
See moreTransformation by Hats
Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.
See moreLe maréchal-ferrant
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to...
See moreVoltige
Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.
See moreRepas en famille
A Japanese family having tea.
See moreJumping the Blanket
Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to...
See moreLe Bey de Tunis et les personnages de sa suite descendant l'escalier du Bardo
Attelage d'un camion
A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart.
See moreDéjeuner du Chat
A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.
See moreWasherwomen on the River
Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.
See moreCount of Montebello and General de Boisdeffre going to the Kremlin [Moscow]
The Count of Montebello and General de Boisdeffre arrive at the coronation of Nicholas II of Russia.
See moreFootball
Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.
See moreDresden, August-Brücke
A short film from the Lumière brothers, filmed in a Dresden street.
See moreBoules Game
Lyon: Quai de l'Archevêché
The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.
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