Auguste Lumière Movies

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

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

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 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....

A funeral parade in Cairo.

An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.

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

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

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot...

A group of people cross a mountain near Chamonix and are filmed doing so by the Lumière brothers.

Short of the Tuileries.

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

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

At the launch of a ship, of which we can only see the hull, the audience moves aside.

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

Game of marbles between four or five boys.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...