Auguste Lumière Movies

Teasing tigers with meat.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about...

A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.

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

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

An early Algerian film depicting donkeys

Filmed in 1896 by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière company, this short actuality presents one of the earliest traveling shots in cinema. With...

Filmed during the coronation ceremonies of Nicholas II in Moscow in 1896, this short by Lumière operator Francis Doublier shows the imperial...

The scene takes place outside a café. Two workers are desperate to be served drinks, and the owner is forced to call in a policeman, who has...

A short clip from the Lumière Brothers.