Auguste Lumière Movies

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

Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.

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

A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

Panorama of a mountainside railroad.

Coach W. Hickenbotham takes "Newhaven" out of his box and places the horse at the center of the paddock. Gardiner, the jockey, saddles up the horse,...

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

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

A review of engineers at the Longchamp parade, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

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...

Street scene shot from a balloon.

Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.

A mounted Mexican president poses for the camera.

Lumière's documents life in Palestine.

Back from fishing, fishermen in a boat pull out sardines caught in the net.

Lumiere street scene.

A collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of-the-century France, narrated by Bertrand...

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a...

Two girls do one of their chores. Standing alongside a tree-lined farmhouse, two children who are about ten and four years old toss grain to a flock...