Auguste Lumière Movies

A short black and white film in which a fixed camera records a busy New York street, Broadway.

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

Within a printing (printing a test).

Sovereigns and their suite passing in front of the monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Sassari.

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

A Chinese dragon parade.

The waterfalls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland, form a cloud of suspended droplets.

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...

Algiers, place du Gouvernement (now place des Martyrs): panorama of a square and its traffic (seen from a tramway)

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by...

Three cats take turns jumping up, in order to catch some food that a woman's hand is holding above their heads.

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a...

This street scene from Bethlehem shows a crowd of locals jumping on something in the middle of camera range. What are they seeking? The implication...