Auguste Lumière Filmes

Groups of men and women, parading in Interlaken, Switzerland, some of them carrying banners.

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

Passers-by on a street market in Marseille.

A Lumière Brothers short film showing a street scene in Paris.

Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.

Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.

Mexicans lassoing a horse.

American Indians dancing.

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

The rough sea crashing upon rocks.

A group of four children, circle dancing.

Motor cars of different models, drivers, passengers and observers, all filmed from the starting line of the Paris-Meulan race.