Auguste Lumière Movies

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

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

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...

A battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A man is manoeuvring a handcart bearing the...

Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.

In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching...

One minute film of Buffalo Bill's famous show.

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

A crowd of spectators listen to President William McKinley's speech during his inauguration ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

A stationary camera looks across Burgundy's river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground,...

American Indians dancing.

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...

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.

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

Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train...

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot...

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

Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.