Auguste Lumière Movies

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

Porters carry baskets full of fish, while others carry bundles, on their shoulders, in Yokohama harbor.

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...

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Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.

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

A Berlin street scene.

Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.

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

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

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.