Auguste Lumière Movies

American Indians dancing.

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

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

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

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

A funeral parade in Cairo.

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...

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

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

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 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 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

A Berlin street scene.

The first travelling shot.

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).