Auguste Lumière Movies

Jumping the Blanket.

Within a printing (printing a test).

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

A stationary camera placed amidships looks toward the round end of a 10- or 12-foot boiler that's been loaded onto the open deck. Three men climb...

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

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

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

The view represents a street in Paris along which pumps descend drawn by horses; the crowd follows en masse.

Game of marbles between four or five boys.

19th century carnival ride.

Panorama of Nice from the deck of a ship.

A street scene from Spain.

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