Auguste Lumière Movies

  • 1896
    Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau

    Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau

    Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau

    5.91896HD

    The first travelling shot.

    Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau
  • 1895
    Transformation by Hats

    Transformation by Hats

    Transformation by Hats

    5.81895HD

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

    Transformation by Hats
  • 1895
    Photograph

    Photograph

    Photograph

    5.51895HD

    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....

    Photograph
  • 1896
    Carpenters

    Carpenters

    Carpenters

    5.21896HD

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

    Carpenters
  • 1896
    Pompiers à Lyon

    Pompiers à Lyon

    Pompiers à Lyon

    5.21896HD

    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...

    Pompiers à Lyon
  • 1897
    Le Caire, un enterrement

    Le Caire, un enterrement

    Le Caire, un enterrement

    4.21897HD

    A funeral parade in Cairo.

    Le Caire, un enterrement
  • 1895
    Fishing for Goldfish

    Fishing for Goldfish

    Fishing for Goldfish

    4.81895HD

    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.

    Fishing for Goldfish
  • 1896
    Panorama de l'arrivée en gare de Perrache pris du train

    Panorama de l'arrivée en gare de Perrache pris du train

    Panorama de l'arrivée en gare de Perrache pris du train

    5.81896HD

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

    Panorama de l'arrivée en gare de Perrache pris du train
  • 1896
    Tsar et tsarine entrant dans l'église de l'Assomption

    Tsar et tsarine entrant dans l'église de l'Assomption

    Tsar et tsarine entrant dans l'église de l'Assomption

    4.21896HD

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

    Tsar et tsarine entrant dans l'église de l'Assomption
  • 1895
    The Blacksmiths

    The Blacksmiths

    The Blacksmiths

    51895HD

    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...

    The Blacksmiths
  • 1897
    Football

    Football

    Football

    5.61897HD

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

    Football
  • 1896
    Lyon: Quai de l'Archevêché

    Lyon: Quai de l'Archevêché

    Lyon: Quai de l'Archevêché

    5.41896HD

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

    Lyon: Quai de l'Archevêché
  • 1896
    Game of Cards

    Game of Cards

    Game of Cards

    5.61896HD

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

    Game of Cards
  • 1900
    Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs

    Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs

    Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs

    6.11900HD

    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...

    Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs
  • 1898
    Review at Longchamp: Parade of the Genie

    Review at Longchamp: Parade of the Genie

    Review at Longchamp: Parade of the Genie

    4.91898HD

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

    Review at Longchamp: Parade of the Genie
  • 1896
    New York: Broadway at Union Square

    New York: Broadway at Union Square

    New York: Broadway at Union Square

    4.81896HD

    New York: Broadway at Union Square
  • 1899
    Danseuses cambodgiennes du roi Norodom, II

    Danseuses cambodgiennes du roi Norodom, II

    Danseuses cambodgiennes du roi Norodom, II

    61899HD

    Danseuses cambodgiennes du roi Norodom, II
  • 1897
    Japanese Sword Fencing

    Japanese Sword Fencing

    Japanese Sword Fencing

    4.71897HD

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

    Japanese Sword Fencing
  • 1896
    Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke

    Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke

    Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke

    51896HD

    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...

    Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
  • 1895
    Jumping the Blanket

    Jumping the Blanket

    Jumping the Blanket

    5.6171895HD

    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...

    Jumping the Blanket