Auguste Lumière Filmes

Children dig for clams on the beach

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

Skating scene.

A grandchild visits his grandparents.

Short from (1897)

A short clip of United States military on horses

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....

A merchant is giving a demonstration of his lifelike automatons to a bedazzled customer. Could these "larger than life" clockwork figures look too...

An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.

Short of the Tuileries.

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.