Auguste Lumière

A collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of-the-century France. (imdb)

A bird buzzes around a mustached man interrupting his meal.

A man has a fantastic meal.

Ski exercises

Panorama of the port of Algiers

A horse parade

Arrival by car - The ceremony decorations - The output of the Chamber of Commerce

Arles: The output of St-Throphime

A mountain pass and some travellers.

People sledding down a hill, shot from a distance.

Percussionists leading a march.

A camera attached to the top of a train as it passes through tunnels and countryside

A day at the beach in 1901

Sailors rowing.

A bunch of cyclists going past the camera.

Throngs of men in top hats walk past the camera.

Aboard the 'Tonkin' - jumping rope

Two men, one white and the other black, hop and dance around, occasionally fighting.

Women working on a river bank.

Stairs from the Pont de l'Alma

Inauguration of the Expo

More footage from the World's Fair in Paris (1900)

Just another Lumiere street scene.

Montreux Festivals Narcissus: Marquesas in their sedan chairs

Rare footage from 1900's World's Fair in Paris

Shot of the Paris expo.

The crowd at a launching of a ship.

Cavalcade historic Sardinia - Parade

Men leaving for a fox hunt.

Uniformed youths march by in droves.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

A parade of women pushing baby carriages.

Veterans on parade.

Cats doing tricks.

A procession of automobiles.

A jousting event.

Within a printing (printing a test)

A man flirts with a milk maid.

One minute in the life of a couple of Japanese women.

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 cat, with long hair and a very furry tail, has leapt onto the table. (imdb User Comments)

Return, Place de l'Etoile - Street scene: Arch de Triumph

A carriage draws up, wheeling to a stop right in front of the camera. There is a cut and the camera has drawn back. The duchess steps out, pauses, then is on her way. (imdb)

A modest proposal for rural taste: Country picnic

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower

A chase scene on makeshift rooftops.

Acrobatics involving a couple of clowns and a dog trainer.

A skeleton puppet show.

A hypnotism scene.

Ballet, 'The Carnival of Venice' II

Belfast: Rescue Exercises

Another critically acclaimed Lumiere street scene

This street scene from Bethlehem shows a crowd of locals jumping on something in the middle of camera range. What are they seeking? The implication seems to be that they are beggars jumping on a handful of alms tossed onto the spot and the effect is simultaneously funny and sad.

Beirut: place cannons

Brussels: Grand Place

Carrara, train exiting a tunnel

A colorful serpentine dance.

Descent of the Great Pyramid

Short film featuring women washing their laundry on the riverbank.

The chestnut vendor

Lumière's in Palestine.

A magician

The King and Queen of Romania and their escorts

A Roman street scene.

Washington, President McKinley addressed his message

A street scene with a government building in the background.

A children's ball

Berlin: Street scene

Cuirassiers on horseback

Cyclists and horse riders arriving at the cottage (1896)

Dresden old town to the Exhibition

A man impressively writes in backwards cursive.

A group of kids goofing around outside.

Lyon, Men rescue rabbits from flood.

This view of the Canebiere district of Marseilles looks, oddly enough, a lot like the scenes of Union Square in New York City at the time.

A large crowd outside the Flemington racecourse weighing room as they watch the jockeys ride up to be weighed before the race. (abc.net.au)

Melbourne races: Presentation of the winner

Melbourne races: horses outputs

A street scene in Munich

Westminster Bridge (1896)

Three cats beg for food from a rather suspicious arm.

Schaffhausen, Rhinefalls seen from afar

Another of the Lumiere Brothers' one-shot films, this time showing a steam train arriving at a station and moving towards the camera It has passed into film folklore for the incident that occurred at its world premiere, when the audience, unfamiliar with the cinema thought the train was really coming right at them, and panicked! (imdb)

Lyon, Place Bellecour - Street Scene