Most Viewed From Lumière

An elderly man wearing a silk top hat, mesmerises sparrows –and his audience- in a public square.

Visitors come and go to the thermal springs of Le Mont-Dore. Some are wrapped up in warm garments, some arrive in palanquins.

An acrobatic act.

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

The camera sails off, giving us a view of the port from the water.

Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.

A few men working at the Jonage canel, Lyon.

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

Paris seen from a boat, in this Lumière short film.

Men burning a pile of wood.

Ski exercises.

A group of women dressed up as Commedia dell'Arte characters dance together.

A large ship embarking.

Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.

A procession of young male athletes.

People raking a field.