Auguste Lumière Movies

A short film from the Lumière brothers showing crowds walking.

Stairs from the Pont de l'Alma.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

A man trots around on a horse for the camera.

Shot of Venice from the Canal.

A military horseback riding event from 1897.

View of the audience, following the launch of a ship.

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...

People riding on a moving platform / walkway.

A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart.

Three cats take turns jumping up, in order to catch some food that a woman's hand is holding above their heads.

A crowd of passers-by is granted access to a drawbridge by its gatekeeper.

A man in a diving suit emerges.

A bout between a tall man and a dwarf.

Brooklyn, Fulton Street

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.