Auguste Lumière Movies

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

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

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...

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

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

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

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to...

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 train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

Short of the Tuileries.

The facade and the traffic in front of the Cinematographe in London, close to the large ensign of the historical Empire Theatre, in London.

A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the...

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.

Three young women dance in Drury Lane, London.

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

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....