Movies: Auguste Lumière

A group of friends playing tennis....

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...

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

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896....

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines....

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

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 smelter into a yard, one worker sprays it with water from a hose while two workers with long metal rak...

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

Short of the Tuileries....

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Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower....

Three young women dance in Drury Lane, London....

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

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

In a field, three women are using pitchforks in order to feed a small fire with weeds....

A large wedding procession....

Lumiere brothers actuality, filmed the 12th of March 1896 in Rome, in front of the Spanish Steps. It shows some couples of Ciociari performing their traditional dance. The Ciociari are the inhabitants of Ciociaria, a region in the south east of Rome...

Panoramic film from the Lumiere Catalogue....