Movies: Auguste Lumière

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 and calls her name, to demonstrate that her baby can walk....

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place....

A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the close left to the camera. A few toddlers also follow in the same orderly line, along their nurses....

A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on the turret suggests that this view was shot in the vicinity of Saint-Chamond, a town where there are factories specializin...

Panoramic film from the Lumiere Catalogue....

Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by....

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

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

Young people dive into the sea by jumping off a manmade wooden raft, while a small boat loaded with passengers passes by....

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Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup....

A group of young women and children enjoy a rowdy picnic in the countryside....

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. Just as the photographer is about to take the picture, the subject gets up to look at the camera mor...

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 and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy then lifts his foot fro...

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

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

While the crowd slowly moves forward, a company of guards and the Imperial dais enter the church....

Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park....

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight....