Auguste Lumière Movies

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

Filmed in 1896 by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière company, this short actuality presents one of the earliest traveling shots in cinema. With...

Lancers parading, during the inauguration ceremony of William I's monument in Breslau, Germany (nowadays Wroclaw, Poland).

One reel containing actuality footage of Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street). Some of the earliest known film footage of Ireland.

Panoramic view of the banks of the River Nile.

A short clip from the Lumière Brothers.

A group of Japanese, eating dinner, somewhere in Kyoto, Honshu.

Rollerskating in Central Park.

A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.

A Japanese family having tea.