Auguste Lumière Movies

A short black and white film in which a fixed camera records a busy New York street, Broadway.

Short film by Lumière of people disembarking from a boat at the port of nice.

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

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

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.

19th century carnival ride.

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

A mother takes her children for a walk, lifts her baby girl out of the buggy and gently sets her down to the ground. She then moves a few steps away...

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.

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

New York, travelers descent of the Brooklyn Bridge

A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the...

A large wedding procession.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

A funeral parade in Cairo.

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....