Most Viewed From Lumière

Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.

Local workers climb the slope pushing carts.

Lumière Catalogue No. 706. A moving shot taken from the electric train in Liverpool. Its vantage reveals ships and lumberyards.

A Lumière Brothers film showing a street scene in Budapest.

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

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by...

A group of highly skilled acrobats perform.

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...

Circulation of passers-by and cars in the paved street on the occasion of the Tsar's coronation.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

The launching of the ship Varèse in Livourne.

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

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...

Panorama of a mountainside railroad and tunnel.

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

A view of Piccadilly Circus in London.