Auguste Lumière Movies

A view of the Great Sphinx with two of Giza's pyramids in the background. A caravan passes the scene.

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

A Japanese family having tea.

Game of marbles between four or five boys.

19th century carnival ride.

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left)....

Panorama of Constantinople from the river.

A short black and white film by the Lumiere brothers which captures the crowd at the Cologne Cathedral after the main religious services.

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

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

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

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

Back from fishing, fishermen in a boat pull out sardines caught in the net.

A Berlin street scene.