Alexandre Promio

Porters bring goods into a warehouse.

Continuation of the previous one.” [cf. n ° 27] Panorama of the quays and the city.

Exotic street scene with men riding camels.

The first scene in the 1898 Passion Play

A fight breaks out between two men in medieval Stockholm, Sweden.

The Swedish Royal family arrives at the General Art and Industrial Exposition at Djurgården in Stockholm on 15 May 1897.

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by...

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

Parade of hunters and Spahis.

Dragon Parade, then passage of several carriages.

Dragons escorting officers on horseback.

Turcos regiment parade.

A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.

An impression of the funeral parade for Victoria, Queen of England, filmed in London (via https://catalogue-lumiere.com/le-char-funebre/)

Short from (1897)

Matadors exiting carriages in Madrid.

Passers-by on a street market in Marseille.

A large wedding procession.

Short from (1896)

Boston, Commercial Street.

Rollerskating in Central Park.

Short film from (1897)

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 short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary...

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

Clarence Dock

Street scene in Liverpool.

Sailors training with swords.

Short film from 1897

The first travelling shot.

More 19th century city life.

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

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by...

Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train...

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

The main market square in the heart of Brussels.

Another street scene of daily life.

Panorama of Constantinople from the river.

A street scene from Spain.

Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.

Lumiere street scene.

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the...

A view of the Great Sphinx with two of Giza's pyramids in the background. A caravan passes the scene.

Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.

Panoramic view of Constantinople.

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

A shot of a ship that is being unloaded.

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

New York, travelers descent of the Brooklyn Bridge

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

Children dig for clams on the beach

Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.

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

An early Algerian film depicting donkeys

A shot of traffic, Sainte-Gudule in Bruxelles.

A shot of traffic in front of Palais de la Bourse, Bruxelles.

A shot of traffic, Place de Brouckère in Bruxelles.

Also known as 'Un incendie à Dublin I', 'Crowds Watch City Fire Brigade' and 'Crowds Watch Dublin Fire Brigade.' Lumiere Catalog no. 710.

A short clip from the Lumière Brothers.

A moving image of the docks of Liverpool. Lumière Catalogue No. 704.

A short clip of United States military on horses

A short film of boats sailing in the New York Harbor

Descent of the Great Pyramid.

Soldiers dancing.

Lumière Catalogue No. 705. A view of the warehouses and docks taken from a local train in Liverpool, ending at the Princess Dock station.

Lumière Catalogue No. 706. A moving shot taken from the electric train in Liverpool. Its vantage reveals ships and lumberyards.

A street scene in Belfast showing several horse-drawn omnibuses.

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

Another critically acclaimed Lumiere street scene.

Firefighters at work in Belfast.

Beirut: place cannons.

Movement of pedestrians, cabs, carts and trams at the crossroads of two avenues.

This street scene from Bethlehem shows a crowd of locals jumping on something in the middle of camera range. What are they seeking? The implication...

Brooklyn, Fulton Street

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.

Teasing tigers with meat.

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

A street scene with a government building in the background.

A view of Piccadilly Circus in London.

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.

Panoramic view of the banks of the River Nile.

Procession of the sacred carpet.

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left)....

A funeral parade in Cairo.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

Another parade film from the Lumiere company.

A group of friends playing tennis.

Liverpool, the sparse. Boats in Liverpool.

The Lumière catalog sold this title as 13 individual, one-scene films, allowing exhibitors to choose which films they wanted to purchase and...

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

Pelicans move

An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé...

The scene takes place outside a café. Two workers are desperate to be served drinks, and the owner is forced to call in a policeman, who has...