Louis Lumière

Born October 5, 1864· Besançon, Doubs, France

† Died June 6, 1948

423Filmography★ 4.4Average rating

Emerging from a family of photographers, Louis Lumière received his technical education at the Martinière Technical School, graduating at the top of his class. At seventeen he devised a dry-plate film-development process that dramatically expanded his father's business, eventually supporting a factory capable of producing fifteen million plates annually. Inspired by Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, he… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

Known for

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat1896Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory1895The Sprinkler Sprinkled1895Baby's Meal1895

Filmography

YearRating

Features 23

★ 5.5

Foottit et Chocolat, II. Acrobates sur la chaise1900

★ 5

Procession à Séville II1898

★ 4

Le Cake-Walk: Final1903

★ 4.2

Fish Market1896

★ 1

Piazza Termini1896

★ 1

Port of La Joliette1896

IV. Sauts périlleux en long1899

Evian : procession de la Fête-Dieu II1898

Evian : procession de la Fête-Dieu III1898

Evian : procession de la Fête-Dieu IV1898

Procession à Séville I1898

Charge of the Cuirassiers1897

Panoramic View of the Departure from Ambérieu Station taken from the Train (Snowy Conditions)1897

Les Chapeaux, I1897

La Poupée1897

La Poupée1897

Nègres ashantis: danse du sabre I1897

Buffalo Bill: lassage de chevaux1897

Buffalo Bill: cow-boys1897

Paris : un incendie1897

Paris : un incendie1897

Negro Children's Meal, I1897

Vieux Port1896

Vieux Port1896

Potsdamer Platz1896

Barcelone, panorama du port II1896

Barcelone, panorama du port II1896

Short films 400

★ 7.1

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat1896

★ 6.7

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory1895

★ 6.8

The Sprinkler Sprinkled1895

★ 6.2

Demolition of a Wall1896

★ 6.5

Snowball Fight1897

★ 6.5

Serpentine Dance1897

★ 5.6

Baby's Meal1895

★ 6.2

The Dancing Skeleton1898

★ 5.5

Swimming in the Sea1895

★ 6

Arrival of a Train at Perrache1896

★ 5.4

Boat Leaving the Port1895

★ 5.3

The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon1895

★ 5.6

Jumping the Blanket1895

★ 5.9

Transformation by Hats1896

★ 5.9

The Little Girl and Her Cat1899

★ 5.5

The Card Game1896

★ 5.7

The Mechanical Butcher1895

★ 5.4

Cordeliers Square1895

★ 6

Childish Quarrel1896

★ 5.9

Sack Race1896

★ 5.7

Cat's Lunch1897

★ 5.2

Horse Trick Riders1895

★ 5.8

Panoramic View of the Arrival at Perrache Station taken from the Train1896

★ 5.7

Baby's First Steps1896

★ 5.6

Game of Boules1896

★ 6

Rotating Plates1896

★ 5.7

Photograph1896

★ 5.7

The Nanny and the Soldier1897

★ 5

The Blacksmiths1895

★ 5.6

Boules Game1896

★ 5.4

Bellecour Square1896

★ 6

Bicyclist1897

★ 5.8

Writing Backwards1896

★ 5.6

Procession of Baby Carriages at a Paris Nursery1899

★ 5.5

Workshops in La Ciotat1896

★ 5.5

Street Dancers1896

★ 4.9

Fishing for Goldfish1895

★ 5.4

Baths in the Sea1897

★ 5.4

Champs-Élysées1896

★ 5.7

Panoramic View of the Arrival in Aix-les-Bains taken from the Train (Snowy Conditions)1897

★ 5.5

Lyon : quai de l’Archevêché1896

★ 5.5

Returning from a Boat Trip1896

★ 5.2

Goldfish Bowl1897

★ 5.2

Washerwomen on the River1897

★ 5.5

The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ1898

★ 5.6

Panorama during the Ascent of the Eiffel Tower1898

★ 5.5

Swings1896

★ 5.4

Chamonix: Le mauvais pas1900

★ 5.3

Raft with Bathers1896

★ 5.3

Drawing Out the Coke1896

★ 5.5

Westminster Bridge1896

★ 5.5

Children Playing Marbles1896

★ 5.6

Vaulting1897

★ 5.5

Panorama du casino pris d'un bateau1897

★ 5.1

Tuileries Basin1896

★ 5.6

Launching of a Ship1896

★ 5.7

Fête de Paris 1899: Concours d'automobiles fleuries (départ)1899

★ 5.3

Place du Pont1897

★ 5.2

Douche après le bain1897

★ 5.2

Champs-Élysées (Carriages)1896

★ 5.3

Transport of a Turret by a Team of 60 Horses1897

★ 5.2

The Woodcutter, a Music Lover1898

★ 5.3

Ostriches1896

★ 5.1

Le goûter des bébés1897

★ 5.2

Firefighters: Attacking the Fire1896

★ 5.6

Intérieur d'une imprimerie (tirage d'une épreuve)1899

★ 4.9

Farrier1896

★ 5

Game of Backgammon1896

★ 5.1

Disembarkment1897

★ 5.6

Le vieux Paris: vue prise en bateau, I1900

★ 5.6

Petit frère et petite sœur1897

★ 5.6

Children's Ball1896

★ 5.7

Carpenters1896

★ 5.5

Danse espagnole de la Feria Sevillanos1900

★ 5.8

Passage d'un tunnel en chemin de fer1898

★ 5.8

Sprayed Card Players1896

★ 5

Bains sur la Saône1897

★ 5.1

Lyon: Débarquement d'une mouche1896

★ 5.2

Place de l'Opéra1896

★ 5.5

Lyon, travaux au canal de Jonage: Machine à damer1897

★ 5

Paris, le Pont-Neuf1897

★ 4.9

Break Time at La Martinière1896

★ 5.2

Children at Play1896

★ 4.9

August-Brücke1896

★ 5

La Canebière1896

★ 5.7

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, [III]1896

Le retour, au bois1899

★ 5.3

Le retour, au bois1899

Le goûter champêtre1898

★ 5.1

Le goûter champêtre1898

★ 4.9

Chamonix: Arrivée en voitures des breaks d'excursion1900

Expérience du ballon dirigeable de M. Santos Dumont. I. Sortie du ballon1900

★ 6.8

Expérience du ballon dirigeable de M. Santos Dumont. I. Sortie du ballon1900

★ 5.1

Sortie d'une noce à l'église1897

★ 4.9

Departure by Car1896

★ 4.9

Dragoons Crossing the Sâone1896

Chamonix, Le Village1900

★ 5.2

Chamonix, Le Village1900

★ 4.8

Entrée d'une noce à l'église1897

★ 4.8

Panoptikum-Friedrichstrasse1896

★ 5.1

Le retour, Place de l'Etoile1899

★ 6.4

The Return to Champs-Élysées1899

★ 5.3

Sardine Fishing1896

★ 5.4

Panorama Taken from a Tethered Balloon1898

★ 5.2

The Kremos: Perilous Jumps1899

★ 5.2

Water Slide (Water Roller Coaster)1897

★ 5.3

The Children's Seaside Frolic1897

Le rémouleur et l'assiette au noir1897

★ 5.8

Le rémouleur et l'assiette au noir1897

★ 6.7

A Trip Through Paris, France in The 1890s1900

★ 5

Departure of Cyclists1896

★ 6

Bicycle Lesson1896

★ 6

Boarding for the Ride1896

★ 5

The Prince of Wales1902

Plate-forme mobile et train électrique1900

★ 6.5

Plate-forme mobile et train électrique1900

★ 4.9

Aquarium1896

★ 5.6

Bluebeard1898

★ 5.6

Berlin, Hallesches Thor1896

★ 5

Ploughing1896

★ 5.8

Le marchand de marrons1898

★ 4.7

Poultry-Yard1896

★ 5.5

III. Sauts périlleux par deux1899

★ 5.7

The Fraudulent Beggar1897

★ 4.9

Loading the Coke1896

★ 6

La toilette du petit chien1900

★ 6

Child and Dog1896

★ 5.3

Carnival, [I]1897

★ 4.8

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Boxing Lesson1897

Chiens savants: équilibres1899

★ 6.5

Chiens savants: équilibres1899

★ 4.9

Port and Vesuvius1896

Arrivée de cyclistes à Turin1899

★ 5.7

Arrivée de cyclistes à Turin1899

★ 5.7

The Sprinkler Sprinkled, [II]1896

★ 4.6

Evian: Procession de la Fête-Dieu I1898

★ 4.7

Carnival, [VIII]1897

★ 5

Cuirassiers on Horseback1896

★ 4.8

Blanket Jumping1897

Expérience du ballon dirigeable de M. Santos Dumont. II. Le ballon et son moteur1900

★ 6

Expérience du ballon dirigeable de M. Santos Dumont. II. Le ballon et son moteur1900

★ 6

La Piscine d'Aix-les-Bains1899

Vu générale de l'Exposition prise du Trocadéro1900

★ 5.2

Vu générale de l'Exposition prise du Trocadéro1900

★ 4.8

Tedders1897

★ 5

Fête de Paris 1899: Concours d’automobiles fleuries (retour)1899

★ 5

Firefighters: Pump Exit1896

★ 5

Lyon: Rabbit Rescue1896

★ 4.9

The chariot and battle of confetti1899

★ 4.6

Loading a Boiler1896

★ 5.3

Équilibre et moulinet1899

★ 5.3

Ronde enfantine1897

Children's Scene1896

★ 5.3

Children's Scene1896

Encierro de toros1898

★ 7

Encierro de toros1898

Chaise en bascule1900

★ 4.7

Chaise en bascule1900

★ 4.9

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat 3D1935

★ 5

Giant and Dwarf1896

★ 5

Maximilianeum1896

★ 4.8

Panorama des rives de la Seine à Paris, III1897

★ 5.5

Sortie de la Quadrille et commencement de la course (Vue de trois quarts)1899

★ 5.5

Chasse au Renard: Le Départ1899

★ 4.7

Les chats boxeurs1898

★ 4.8

In Front of Notre-Dame1897

Mont Dore: L'Etablissement thermal1900

★ 5

Mont Dore: L'Etablissement thermal1900

Cortège de gymnastique devant LL. MM.1899

★ 5

Cortège de gymnastique devant LL. MM.1899

★ 4.6

Alter Marktplatz1897

★ 6

Grand Canal avec barques1898

★ 6

Panorama des rives de la Seine, I1897

★ 6

Panorama des rives de la Seine, II1897

★ 6

Hairstyles1896

★ 6

Postplatz1896

★ 4.8

Victor Hugo et les principaux personnages des 'Misérables'1898

Panorama du funiculaire de Bellevue II1898

★ 4.8

Panorama du funiculaire de Bellevue II1898

★ 4.8

Cat Meal1896

★ 4.8

Londres : entrée de Hyde Park1896

★ 4.6

Scaphandrier1896

★ 4.6

Workers Repairing a Sidewalk with Bitumen1898

★ 4.6

Courses d'ânes: II, la course1897

★ 5

Place de la Concorde (View taken from the West Side)1897

★ 5.5

Naples : une rue1897

★ 4.5

Paris, rue de Castiglione1897

★ 4.6

Paris, Place de la République1897

★ 4.6

Boarding1896

★ 4.6

Concert1896

Barcelone, panorama du port I1898

★ 4.7

Barcelone, panorama du port I1898

Panorama du funiculaire du Mont-Dore1898

★ 4.7

Panorama du funiculaire du Mont-Dore1898

★ 5

Négrillons1903

★ 5

Foottit et Chocolat, I. Boxeurs1900

★ 5

Mâcon: Panorama taken from a Train1896

★ 5

Baby's First Steps1896

★ 4.5

Procession of the Fat Ox (Prince Carnival's Float)1897

Epinal: Les bords de la Moselle1900

★ 4.5

Epinal: Les bords de la Moselle1900

99e régiment d'infanterie : assaut du portique1897

★ 4.5

99e régiment d'infanterie : assaut du portique1897

★ 4.5

Leaving Church1896

★ 4.5

Arc de Triomphe1896

★ 4.5

Rue Alsace-Lorraine1896

★ 4.5

Fishing Net Haul-out1896

★ 4.5

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, [IV]1897

★ 4.4

Les Escaliers du Pont de l'Alma1900

★ 4.4

The Execution of Joan of Arc1898

★ 4.4

Wood Fire1897

Boat at Sea1896

★ 4.4

Boat at Sea1896

★ 4.4

Negro Bathing1896

★ 1

Le forum1896

Firefighters: Battery Deployment1896

★ 4.4

Firefighters: Battery Deployment1896

★ 4.4

Arrival by Car1896

★ 4.3

Le cake-walk: Nègres, [I]1903

★ 4.3

Washing of a Negro Child, II1897

Danse d'hommes1897

★ 4.3

Danse d'hommes1897

Marché aux boeufs, I1897

★ 4.3

Marché aux boeufs, I1897

★ 4.3

Batteuse de blé1897

★ 4.3

The Sprinkler Sprinkled1896

La rue des nations, II1900

★ 4

La rue des nations, II1900

★ 4

Le policeman1900

★ 4

La mort de Chocolat1900

★ 4

Panorama des rives de la Seine, IV1897

★ 4

Boats1897

★ 4

Via Marina1897

★ 4

Venise : place Saint-Marc1897

★ 4

99e régiment d’infanterie : boxe et chausson1897

Buffalo Bill: peaux rouges1897

★ 4.3

Buffalo Bill: peaux rouges1897

Jeu de la poêle1898

★ 4.3

Jeu de la poêle1898

★ 4.3

Mid-Lent: float of the Queen of Queens1897

★ 4.2

Magician, [I]1897

★ 4.2

Baby Contest1896

★ 4.2

Old District at the Exhibition1896

★ 4

In Single File on the Mountain, l. Montée1899

★ 4

In Single File on Glaciers With Snowshoes, l. Montée1899

★ 4

27th Chasseurs Alpins: Assault on a Wall1897

Foottit et Chocolat, IV. Guillaume Tell1900

★ 4.2

Foottit et Chocolat, IV. Guillaume Tell1900

★ 4.2

Danseuse de ballet1897

★ 4

Procession à Séville III1898

★ 4

Demolition of a Wall, I1896

★ 3

Naples : Santa Lucia1897

★ 4

Nègres Ashantis: Danse du sabre II1897

★ 4

Cavalcade (Silk Chariot)1896

★ 3.5

Via Roma1897

★ 4.2

Pillow Fight, No. 21898

★ 4

Danse des Ciociari1897

★ 4

Espagne : courses de taureaux1897

★ 3.7

Thiers, Mac-Mahon, Grévy, Carnot, Félix Faure1898

★ 3.8

Cheval de haute école, II1897

Discussion1895

★ 3.8

Discussion1895

The Music-Loving Wood Sawyer1897

★ 2

The Music-Loving Wood Sawyer1897

★ 2

Loading a Horse1896

★ 2

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, [II]1896

★ 2

A Heavy Sea1896

★ 3

Course de taureaux, sortie de la quadrille1898

★ 3

View of the Saône Riverbanks from a Boat1897

★ 3

Dragoons: Swordsmanship1897

★ 3

Disembarkment1896

★ 3

Sword Practice1896

Une scène d'hypnotisme II1898

★ 3.8

Une scène d'hypnotisme II1898

★ 3.8

Lourdes, Transporting the Sick, II1897

★ 3.8

Rome, pont Ripetta1896

★ 3.3

Mauvais temps au port1899

★ 3.3

Bains sur le Rhône1896

★ 1

The Skaters1898

★ 1

Course de taureaux : départ1898

★ 1

Carnival, [II]1897

★ 1

Carnival, [III]1897

★ 1

Carnival, [IV]1897

★ 1

Carnival, [V]1897

★ 1

Carnival, [VI]1897

★ 1

Carnival, [VII]1897

★ 1

Via Carlo Alberto1897

★ 1

The Stock Exchange1896

★ 1

Market1896

★ 1

Boxers1896

★ 1

Swans1896

★ 1

Carabiniers1896

★ 1

Infanterie1896

★ 1

Russian Dance1896

Cuirassiers: Departure1896

★ 1

Cuirassiers: Departure1896

★ 1

Cuirassiers: As Foragers (Charge)1896

★ 1

Cuirassiers: Melee (Length: 12 meters)1896

★ 1

Fencing Lesson: Assault1896

★ 1

96th Line in Motion1896

★ 1

Watering Trough1896

★ 1

Lombards Brücke1896

★ 1

Karlsplatz1896

★ 1

Schlossplatz1896

★ 1

Fountain on the Schlossplatz1896

★ 1

Stuttgart: 26th Dragoons Jumping Obstacles1896

★ 1

Stuttgart: 26th Dragoons. Parade1896

★ 1

Firefighters' Alert1896

★ 1

Hyde Park1896

★ 1

Regent Street1896

★ 1

The Rising Guard at Buckingham Palace1896

★ 1

Guards on Horseback1896

★ 1

Fontaine de Trevi1896

★ 1

Loading the Fishing Nets1896

★ 1

Fishermen Mending their Nets1896

★ 1

Tree Felling1896

★ 1

Rochers de la Vierge (Biarritz)1896

★ 1

Serpent1896

★ 1

Tit for Tat1896

★ 3.7

Boxers in Barrels1897

★ 3

Chamonix: the Mer de Glace. Descent.1900

★ 2.3

Family Meal1896

★ 4

Spanish Bullfight1900

Le cake-walk: Nègres, [II]1903

Inauguration of the Water Tower1900

Le chat qui joue1899

Evian : arrivée d’un bateau1899

Course de taureaux : passements de manteaux1899

Course de taureaux : estocade1899

Enlèvement du taureau1899

The funicular from Aix-les-Bains to Mont Revard1899

Course de taureaux : école de tauromachie1898

Picadors1898

Courses de taureaux : mort du taureau1898

99th Infantry Regiment: Rings and Trapeze1897

Une partie de lawn-tennis, I1897

Villefranche : arrivée d'un train1897

Acrobatic Ladies1897

Departure of a Transatlantic Crossing1897

Tourists Returning from an Excursion1897

Nanny and Cuirassier1897

Carpenter and Cardboard Maker1897

Colin-maillard1897

Prestidigitateur, II1897

Départ d’un bateau à vapeur sur le lac Léman1897

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Gathering1897

The "Brennus"1897

The "Magenta"1897

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Parade1897

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Parade at a Gymnastic Pace1897

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Obstacle Course1897

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Bayonet Drills1897

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Flexibility Exercises1897

27th Chasseurs Alpins: Weapons Handling1897

27th Chasseurs Alpins: Mass Parade of the Battalion1897

27th Chasseurs Alpins: Assault on the Portico1897

27th Chasseurs Alpins: Staff Exercise1897

Exercice de boxe1897

27th Chasseurs Alpins: Parade1897

Cuirassé américain “San Francisco” en rade de Villefranche (panorama)1897

Chiens : défilé de meutes1897

Cheval de haute école, I1897

Cheval sauteur1897

Le ballon1897

Les chapeaux, II1897

Chapeaux et équilibres1897

Sauts périlleux1897

Sauts à la corde1897

L’homme-chien1897

Le gendarme et le voleur1897

Arrival of a Train at the Station1897

Danse de jeunes filles1897

Danse de femmes1897

Danse du féticheur1897

Défilé de la tribu1897

Sauts en hauteur1897

Sauts en hauteur1897

Battle of the Flowers and Float Parade, I1897

Battle of the Flowers and Float Parade, II1897

Battle of the Flowers and Float Parade, III1897

Locomobile1897

Lourdes, Transporting the Sick, I1897

Procession, I1897

Procession, II1897

Procession, III1897

Saut du mouton1897

Saut du mouton1897

The Rocking Bed1897

Bataille de femmes interrompue par un chien1897

Masséna Square1897

Masséna Square1897

Negro Children's Meal, II1897

Washing of a Negro Child, I1897

Negro Children's Playtime1897

Negro Children's School1897

Crosswise Pommel Horse Jumps1897

Parallel Bars, I1897

Parallel Bars, II1897

Parallel Bars, II1897

Group Movements1897

Group Movements1897

99th Infantry Regiment: Fixed Bars1897

Artillery: Parade at a Trot1897

Dragoons: Galloping Parade1897

Dragoons: Obstacle Jumps in Two Rows1897

Dragoons: Obstacle Jumps in Two Rows1897

Dragoons: Obstacle Jumps across Multiple Rows1897

Dragoons: Obstacle Jumps across Multiple Rows1897

Dragoons: Mass Obstacle Jumping1897

Dragoons: Spear Combat1897

Dragoons: Spear handling1897

Military Review: Artillery at a Gallop1897

Military Review: Infantry Parade1897

Military Review: Parade of the Train Corps1897

Military Review: Firefighters' Parade1897

Military Review: Presentation of Medals, I1897

Elephants1896

Cours Belsunce1896

Negroes on Forced Labor1896

Cavalcade (Roman and Abyssinian Warriors)1896

Unloading Grain1896

Dance on Stage (Pas de Deux)1896

Sheep Entering the Slaughterhouse1896

Cast Net Fishing1896

Firefighters: Rescue1896

Fencing Lesson: Salute1896

Procession on the Schlossplatz1896

Procession of Ancient Germanic Tribes1896

Procession on Horseback1896

Cortège du prince Weimar1896

Stuttgart: 26th Dragoons. Dismount1896

Cuirassiers: Boots and Saddles1896

Cuirassiers: Boots and Saddles1896

Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière1895

99th Infantry Regiment: Sword Duel

99th Infantry Regiment: Sword Duel-

99th Infantry Regiment: Baton-

99th Infantry Regiment: Long Jumps-

Artillery: Gallop and Battery Deployment-

Saut à la couverte - version non cataloguée

Saut à la couverte - version non cataloguée-

Voltige - version non cataloguée

Voltige - version non cataloguée-