Auguste Lumière Movies

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

Panorama of a mountainside railroad.

A small boat, with three men aboard, is shaken by the backwash.

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

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

A variation on the popular Butterfly Dance, released in hand-colored and stenciled versions. The film has the catalogue number 2011 and was likely...

Shot both on and from an elevated electric train.

A short film

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.

Street scene shot from a balloon.

A Berlin street scene.

Workers fill in a large hole left by an uprooted tree, while others pick up ropes.