Movies: Louis Lumière

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines....

Friends and relatives playing a game of boules, arguing about who's team is winning....

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board....

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In the foreground, smoke billows. Four horse-drawn fire wagons approach and pass in front of a stationary camera. Two horses draw each wagon, and each wagon carries from two to eight firefighters. After the wagons pass, carts and pedestrians resume t...

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

Excursions in the mountains of a group of riders....

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Angelic and demonic serpentine dance from dawn of cinema. Hand-colored frame by frame. Lumière no. 765 or 765.1 (colorized, different dancer?)....

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Comedy produced by the Lumière brothers society between 1896 and 1897 with unidentified direction....

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[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of cinema has witnessed a struggle between the objective and subjective camera and the optically distorting lenses like th...

Within a printing (printing a test)....

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People resting and walking on the beach....

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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 and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy then lifts his foot fro...

The view represents a street in Paris along which pumps descend drawn by horses; the crowd follows en masse....