Auguste Lumière Movies

Four Ainu men, performing a traditional dance, somewhere near Muroran, Hokkaido.

Pedestrian and tram traffic on the square.

Lumière Catalogue No. 706. A moving shot taken from the electric train in Liverpool. Its vantage reveals ships and lumberyards.

Boys diving into a river.

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

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

Women are burning piles of weeds in a field, and turning them over with pitchforks.

Chasseurs Alpins manipulate staffs in a coordinated movement.

The scene depicts famous baths where bathers plunge into the water from a prodigious height, performing somersaults. A very curious effect when you...

A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her.

Riders passing by on horseback.

Mexicans lassoing a horse.

The veil covering the statue of William I falls away. The crowd stirs, men uncover themselves, and some of the horsemen move.

Fishermen, sitting by a boat, mending their nets.

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.

View not found (judging from the picture in the photographic plates, it is the passage of an infantry regiment in parade uniform, among the...

Parade of the queen's float, then a second one on which an orchestra plays; carriages follow them.

“The scene depicts the collapse of a section of wall in a factory.” As workers carry away wheelbarrows of rubble, a wall tips over and...