Most Viewed From Lumière

Dragons escorting officers on horseback.

A view of Piccadilly Circus in London.

A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets...

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....

An early short film from the Lumière brothers.

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

A group of children in a pillow fight.

A procession of automobiles.

Several competitors take part in a friendly sack race, with widely varying degrees of success.

Lumière Brothers film automobiles driving at the Champs-Elysées.

A man in a diving suit emerges.

A bout between a tall man and a dwarf.

Lumière Catalogue No. 705. A view of the warehouses and docks taken from a local train in Liverpool, ending at the Princess Dock station.

Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.

Cuirassiers charge the camera on horseback.

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