Auguste Lumière Movies

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

[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of...

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

A Japanese family having tea.

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...

A short film from the Lumière brothers, filmed in a Dresden street.

A large wedding procession.

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

Panorama of the port of Algiers.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

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

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

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

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

A short film

Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.

A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him....