Auguste Lumière Movies

A short black and white film by the Lumiere brothers which captures the crowd at the Cologne Cathedral after the main religious services.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about...

In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot...

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

Panoramic view of the banks of the River Nile.

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

The Count of Montebello and General de Boisdeffre arrive at the coronation of Nicholas II of Russia.

A group of children in a pillow fight.

Women hauling coke in wheelbarrows.

A group of highly skilled acrobats perform.

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

A tramp is run over by a car and dismembered. Helpful passers-by reassemble him.

Panoramic view of Constantinople.

A collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of-the-century France, narrated by Bertrand...