Auguste Lumière Movies

The end of the Longchamp parade and departure of the President, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

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...

President Félix Faure, escorted by horsemen, marching past the troops at Longchamp.

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

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

A group of workers, aided by a steam-roller, are leveling the ground during the construction of the Jonage canal, a diversion of the Rhône...

Short of the Tuileries.

Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by...

A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart.

A boat returns to port, where passengers are helped ashore.

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.