Auguste Lumière Movies

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.

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

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

Lyon, Men rescue rabbits from flood.

Officers and soldiers, followed by a military band, parade in front of decorated grandstands.

The crowd gathers, on the lawn, in front of the grandstand.

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as...

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

Shot both on and from an elevated electric train.

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

Mexicans lassoing a horse.

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.

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