Auguste Lumière Movies

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

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

Lumière's documents life in Palestine.

An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé...

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

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

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 earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

Sovereign Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna and President Félix Faure, walking by, followed by their respective escorts.

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...

Short film from (1897)

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

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