Auguste Lumière Movies

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

Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be...

Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.

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...

The second Kremo family acrobat film for the Lumiere. Involves one gag in which the adult is simultaeously flipping two children with his legs.

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

A Japanese family having tea.

A Berlin street scene.

An oddly routed parade.

A small boat is approaching waterfalls, shrouded in thick fog, in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland.

Panoramic view of the banks of the River Nile.

A large wedding procession.

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

A group of tambours and dancers in traditional outfits pass the camera.