Auguste Lumière Movies

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

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...

In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching...

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding Baby her lunch, while Mum is serving tea.

A small boat is approaching waterfalls, shrouded in thick fog, in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland.

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....

Porters carry baskets full of fish, while others carry bundles, on their shoulders, in Yokohama harbor.

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

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

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.

Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.

Panorama of the docks, the city and the bridge of a boat sailing the Rhine river in Cologne, Germany.

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

King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy stepping down a staircase, followed by their escort, before climbing into a horse-drawn carriage.

The rough sea crashing upon rocks.