Auguste Lumière Movies

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

Worker women carrying baskets.

A tramp is run over by a car and dismembered. Helpful passers-by reassemble him.

People riding on a moving platform / walkway.

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the...

A procession of automobiles.

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

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

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé...

More 19th century city life.

A royal wedding procession.

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

A boat returns to port, where passengers are helped ashore.

A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on the...

Panoramic view of Constantinople.

A group of children in a pillow fight.

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.