Auguste Lumière Movies

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

View of the Westminster Bridge.

A group of tambours and dancers in traditional outfits pass the camera.

Children dig for clams on the beach

Asian and Near Eastern diplomats and royalty file past the camera on their way to the coronation of Czar Nicholas II of Russia.

Four men tie ropes to a log and then pull it to the shore.

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

A short clip of United States military on horses

Two girls do one of their chores. Standing alongside a tree-lined farmhouse, two children who are about ten and four years old toss grain to a flock...

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

The Last Supper, part 6 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play.

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be...

Circulation of passers-by and cars in the paved street on the occasion of the Tsar's coronation.