Auguste Lumière Movies

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.

A short clip of street life in the French village Chamonix.

Game of marbles between four or five boys.

A group of people cross a mountain near Chamonix and are filmed doing so by the Lumière brothers.

Two girls do one of their chores. Standing alongside a tree-lined farmhouse, two children who are about ten and four years old toss grain to a flock...

The rough sea crashing upon rocks.

At the start line of the Lyon-Geneva bicycle race.

Jumping the Blanket.

At the launch of a ship, of which we can only see the hull, the audience moves aside.

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

Asian and Near Eastern diplomats and royalty file past the camera on their way to the coronation of Czar Nicholas II of Russia.

An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.

A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart.

The end of the Longchamp parade and departure of the President, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

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