Most Viewed From Lumière

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

A clergyman is startled by a group of automatons.

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

[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of...

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé...

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

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

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

Sovereign Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna and President Félix Faure, walking by, followed by their respective escorts.

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...

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

A small boat is approaching waterfalls, shrouded in thick fog, in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland.

An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.

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

Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.