Auguste Lumière Movies

The first travelling shot.

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

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....

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

In the foreground, smoke billows. Four horse-drawn fire wagons approach and pass in front of a stationary camera. Two horses draw each wagon, and...

A funeral parade in Cairo.

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 his bare hands.

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

A review of engineers at the Longchamp parade, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

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

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a...

Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to jump...