Auguste Lumière Movies

Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.

Two fighters, in traditional costume, taking part to the national kendo tournament.

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...

Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes.

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

An early Algerian film depicting donkeys

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

A review of the Republican Guard and firemen at Longchamp filmed by the Lumière brothers.

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

Passengers travelling in litters in the French protectorate of Annam

The first travelling shot.