Auguste Lumière Movies

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

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

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

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

A Berlin street scene.

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to...

This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The aim is to break down the usual clichéd...

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary...

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.

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

Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.

A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on the...

A group of young women and children enjoy a rowdy picnic in the countryside.

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