Auguste Lumière Movies

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

The first travelling shot.

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

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...

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by...

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

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

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

Within a printing (printing a test).

Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train...

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...

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

Passengers leaving a ship in Lyon.

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

Carriages and crowds cross a grassy area.

While the crowd slowly moves forward, a company of guards and the Imperial dais enter the church.

A group of acrobats form human pyramids.

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.