Auguste Lumière Movies

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

The first scene in the 1898 Passion Play

A young man explains to a small boy how to ride a bicycle.

A street scene in Belfast showing several horse-drawn omnibuses.

Japanese actors act out an early martial arts weapons scene.

The Count of Montebello and General de Boisdeffre arrive at the coronation of Nicholas II of Russia.

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...

Carriages travel down the Champs Elysée.

Sovereign Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna and President Félix Faure, walking by, followed by their respective escorts.

People gather at the exit of the St. Trophime cathedral in Arles.

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street.

Asian and Near Eastern diplomats and royalty file past the camera on their way to the coronation of Czar Nicholas II of Russia.

A royal wedding procession.

A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him....