Most Viewed From Lumière

A view of the Great Sphinx with two of Giza's pyramids in the background. A caravan passes the scene.

A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the...

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

A Japanese family having tea.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

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

Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.

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...

A funeral parade in Cairo.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruinous relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long marriage with divorce. When they...

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

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 jump...

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

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

A Berlin street scene.

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.