Auguste Lumière Movies

An early short film from the Lumière brothers.

Shot of Venice from the Canal.

A shot of traffic, Sainte-Gudule in Bruxelles.

A stationary camera placed amidships looks toward the round end of a 10- or 12-foot boiler that's been loaded onto the open deck. Three men climb...

Two children, playing in the garden, with a dog and a cat.

The launching of the ship Varèse in Livourne.

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about...

A group of four children, circle dancing.

A crowd of spectators listen to President William McKinley's speech during his inauguration ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, on horseback, parade in front of the cheering crowd, during the inauguration ceremony of William I's monument in Breslau,...

Brooklyn, Fulton Street

Japanese actors act out an early martial arts weapons scene.

A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her.

Inside an operating room, a surgeon performs several procedures of "modern" surgery.