Most Viewed From Lumière

Carrara, Italy. A train loaded with marble exits a tunnel.

Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

In a field, three women are using pitchforks in order to feed a small fire with weeds.

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

First of a series of films showing visitors to the Paris Exposition 1900 standing on a mobile wooden platform.

Dragon Parade, then passage of several carriages.

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.

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...

One reel containing actuality footage of Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street). Some of the earliest known film footage of Ireland.

Two lines of workers, pulling a steamroller, somewhere in the streets of Saigon, Vietnam (nowadays, Ho Chi Minh City).

Another critically acclaimed Lumiere street scene.

A man in a diving suit emerges.

Worker women carrying baskets.

Panorama of Nice from the deck of a ship.

A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him....

Two fighters, in traditional costume, taking part to the national kendo tournament.