Auguste Lumière Movies

Passage of three carriages, escorted by lackeys and soldiers.

Dragons escorting officers on horseback.

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

President Félix Faure, escorted by horsemen, marching past the troops at Longchamp.

Mexicans lassoing a horse.

A man in a diving suit emerges.

A horse-drawn carriage stops in front of a villa. The residents greet the newcomers, as the coach driver unloads baggages.

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her.

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

A small boat, with three men aboard, is shaken by the backwash.

An acrobatic act.

Japanese actors act out an early martial arts weapons scene.

Passers-by on a street market in Marseille.

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

Firefighters at work in Belfast.

This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.