Auguste Lumière Filmes

A woman, in her bedroom, is putting her jewelry away. Alarmed by strange noises at her door, she hides behind her bed. A burglar enters the room and...

Filmed in 1896 by the Lumière brothers, this short actuality captures a dramatic cavalry charge by cuirassiers — heavily armed horsemen...

Officers and soldiers, followed by a military band, parade in front of decorated grandstands.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about...

A fixed camera gets images of traffic and passers-by in Vienna's chic thoroughfare, popularly known as Ringstrasse (The Ring), at a junction with...

People board a leisure ship while porters ship their luggage in the town of Évian-les-Bains.

A short black and white film in which a fixed camera records a busy New York street, Broadway.

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

19th century carnival ride.

Short film from (1897)

On the terrace of a villa, a violinist, two pianists and a singer are playing, until they are interrupted by a false note.

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

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....