Auguste Lumière Movies

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.

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

A mother takes her children for a walk, lifts her baby girl out of the buggy and gently sets her down to the ground. She then moves a few steps away...

Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.

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

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

Another parade film from the Lumiere company.

Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.

Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.

Two girls do one of their chores. Standing alongside a tree-lined farmhouse, two children who are about ten and four years old toss grain to a flock...

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Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.

First of a series of films showing visitors to the Paris Exposition 1900 standing on a mobile wooden platform.

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

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

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

Passengers leaving a ship in Lyon.

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