Auguste Lumière Movies

Carriages and crowds cross a grassy area.

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

Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train...

Panorama of a mountainside railroad and tunnel.

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...

An oddly routed parade.

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

The Count of Montebello and General de Boisdeffre arrive at the coronation of Nicholas II of Russia.

The facade and the traffic in front of the Cinematographe in London, close to the large ensign of the historical Empire Theatre, in London.

A film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the...

A group of young women and children enjoy a rowdy picnic in the countryside.

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the...

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

A Paris street scene.

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

A collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of-the-century France, narrated by Bertrand...

Young people dive into the sea by jumping off a manmade wooden raft, while a small boat loaded with passengers passes by.

A mother takes her children for a walk, lifts her baby girl out of the buggy and gently sets her down to the ground. She then moves a few steps away...

A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the...