Auguste Lumière Movies

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

Descent of the Great Pyramid.

A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on the...

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.

Pedestrian, trams, carriages and carts traffic at the intersection of two streets on La Canebière in Marseille.

A review of engineers at the Longchamp parade, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

A Berlin street scene.

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....

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes.

Film shot from a ship at sea.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

Women hauling coke in wheelbarrows.

King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy stepping down a staircase, followed by their escort, before climbing into a horse-drawn carriage.

View of the Westminster Bridge.

Passengers leaving a ship in Lyon.