Auguste Lumière Movies

Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by...

Students in Lyon.

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

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

Young people dive into the sea by jumping off a manmade wooden raft, while a small boat loaded with passengers passes by.

A short film from the Lumière brothers, filmed in a Dresden street.

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

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

Lumière Brothers film automobiles driving at the Champs-Elysées.

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

A boat returns to port, where passengers are helped ashore.

Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park.

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a...

A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on 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...

A large wedding procession.

A Berlin street scene.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.