Auguste Lumière Movies

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the...

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...

Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.

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...

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

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

A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes.

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

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

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 the foreground, smoke billows. Four horse-drawn fire wagons approach and pass in front of a stationary camera. Two horses draw each wagon, and...

The first travelling shot.

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

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

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...

A Berlin street scene.