Auguste Lumière Movies

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

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

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

Passers-by on a street market in Marseille.

Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.

A view of the Great Sphinx with two of Giza's pyramids in the background. A caravan passes the scene.

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

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...

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...

The first travelling shot.

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.

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