Auguste Lumière Movies

An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé...

An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.

Within a printing (printing a test).

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

A bunch of guys pulling a long rope out of the water, never revealing what its attached to.

Ainu people, performing a traditional dance, somewhere near Muroran, Hokkaido. A group of women is spot-dancing, while a man circles around them.

Fishermen, sitting by a boat, are mending nets.

Another street scene of daily life.

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

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

A short documentary clip released by Pathé Frères.

A funeral parade in Cairo.

Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to jump...

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

The facade and the traffic in front of the Cinematographe in London, close to the large ensign of the historical Empire Theatre, in London.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to...

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