Auguste Lumière Movies

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

A street scene with a government building in the background.

A group of young women and children enjoy a rowdy picnic in the countryside.

Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

One minute film of Buffalo Bill's famous show.

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

An early Algerian film depicting donkeys

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

Sovereign Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna and President Félix Faure, walking by, followed by their respective escorts.

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

Game of marbles between four or five boys.

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.