Auguste Lumière Movies

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

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 first travelling shot.

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

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...

Short of the Tuileries.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

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 group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

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....

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart.

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

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

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

People waiting in line for, what one can only assume, a Lumiere production.

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...