Auguste Lumière Movies

A Japanese family having tea.

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the...

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

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

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...

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

Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.

A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.

This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The aim is to break down the usual clichéd...

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...

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

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

Passengers travelling in litters in the French protectorate of Annam

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.