Auguste Lumière Movies

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...

Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.

A short film from the Lumière brothers, filmed in a Dresden street.

A battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A man is manoeuvring a handcart bearing the...

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be...

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

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

President Félix Faure, escorted by horsemen, marching past the troops at Longchamp.

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

Visitors at a historical fair in the mediaeval city of Dresden.

A short clip of street life in the French village Chamonix.

Lumière's documents life in Palestine.

Several fire-carriages, presumably heading to a fire.

Sailors training with swords.

A Chinese dragon parade.

Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.