Louis Lumière Movies

Ainu people, performing a traditional dance, somewhere near Muroran, Hokkaido. A group of women is spot-dancing, while a man circles around them.

Passage of a Shintoist procession, whose members carry banners and lanterns, somewhere in Kyoto.

Two teams of artillery carriages, parading side by side past the grandstand during the inauguration ceremony of President McKinley in Washington DC.

A merchant is giving a demonstration of his lifelike automatons to a bedazzled customer. Could these "larger than life" clockwork figures look too...

An oddly routed parade.

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

A bird buzzes around a mustached man interrupting his meal.

This street scene from Bethlehem shows a crowd of locals jumping on something in the middle of camera range. What are they seeking? The implication...

Coach W. Hickenbotham takes "Newhaven" out of his box and places the horse at the center of the paddock. Gardiner, the jockey, saddles up the horse,...

People gather at the exit of the St. Trophime cathedral in Arles.

A variation on the popular Butterfly Dance, released in hand-colored and stenciled versions. The film has the catalogue number 2011 and was likely...

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be...

American Indians dancing.

A tramp is run over by a car and dismembered. Helpful passers-by reassemble him.

Officers and soldiers, followed by a military band, parade in front of decorated grandstands.

At the start line of the Lyon-Geneva bicycle race.

Cyclists and horse riders arriving at the cottage (1896)

A crowd of young children dance around.

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

A short clip from the Lumière Brothers.