Auguste Lumière

Born October 19, 1862· Besançon, Doubs, France

† Died April 10, 1954

231Filmography★ 3.8Average rating

Emerging from a technical background acquired at the Martinière Technical School and early management experience at his father's photographic firm, Auguste Lumière, together with his brother Louis, transformed motion-picture technology by creating the cinematograph, an animated camera and projection system that debuted in December 1895. Their inaugural screening sparked worldwide interest, leading… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

Known for

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat1896Washerwomen on the River1897Tuileries Basin1896Baths in the Sea1897

Filmography

YearRating

Features 15

★ 4.2

Fish Market1896

★ 1

Piazza Termini1896

★ 1

Port of La Joliette1896

Evian : procession de la Fête-Dieu III1898

Evian : procession de la Fête-Dieu II1898

Evian : procession de la Fête-Dieu IV1898

Charge of the Cuirassiers1897

Panoramic View of the Departure from Ambérieu Station taken from the Train (Snowy Conditions)1897

Les Chapeaux, I1897

La Poupée1897

La Poupée1897

Negro Children's Meal, I1897

Parallel Bars, II1897

Parallel Bars, II1897

Vieux Port1896

Vieux Port1896

Potsdamer Platz1896

Artillery: Gallop and Battery Deployment-

Short films 216

★ 7.1

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat1896

★ 5.7

The Nanny and the Soldier1897

★ 5.5

Street Dancers1896

★ 5.4

Baths in the Sea1897

★ 5.2

Washerwomen on the River1897

★ 5.4

Champs-Élysées1896

★ 5.5

Returning from a Boat Trip1896

★ 5.7

Panoramic View of the Arrival in Aix-les-Bains taken from the Train (Snowy Conditions)1897

★ 5.1

Tuileries Basin1896

★ 5.4

Chamonix: Le mauvais pas1900

★ 5.5

Westminster Bridge1896

★ 5.2

Douche après le bain1897

★ 5.2

Champs-Élysées (Carriages)1896

★ 5.5

Panorama du casino pris d'un bateau1897

★ 5.2

Firefighters: Attacking the Fire1896

La Palestine en 18961897

★ 6.4

La Palestine en 18961897

★ 4.9

Break Time at La Martinière1896

★ 5.1

Disembarkment1897

★ 5

Bains sur la Saône1897

★ 4.9

August-Brücke1896

★ 5.1

Lyon: Débarquement d'une mouche1896

★ 5

La Canebière1896

★ 5.2

Place de l'Opéra1896

★ 4.8

Entrée d'une noce à l'église1897

★ 4.8

Panoptikum-Friedrichstrasse1896

★ 4.9

Dragoons Crossing the Sâone1896

★ 5.5

Lyon, travaux au canal de Jonage: Machine à damer1897

★ 5.8

Passage d'un tunnel en chemin de fer1898

★ 5.8

Sprayed Card Players1896

Le goûter champêtre1898

★ 5.1

Le goûter champêtre1898

★ 5.1

Le retour, Place de l'Etoile1899

★ 4.6

Evian: Procession de la Fête-Dieu I1898

★ 5.5

Weeds1897

★ 5.4

Panorama Taken from a Tethered Balloon1898

★ 5.3

The Children's Seaside Frolic1897

★ 5

Ploughing1896

★ 4.7

Carnival, [VIII]1897

★ 4.8

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Boxing Lesson1897

★ 6.4

The Return to Champs-Élysées1899

★ 5.6

Berlin, Hallesches Thor1896

★ 6

Boarding for the Ride1896

★ 6

Bicycle Lesson1896

★ 4.8

Blanket Jumping1897

★ 4.9

Port and Vesuvius1896

★ 5

Cuirassiers on Horseback1896

★ 4.6

Alter Marktplatz1897

★ 6

La toilette du petit chien1900

★ 6

Child and Dog1896

★ 4.7

Les chats boxeurs1898

★ 5

Firefighters: Pump Exit1896

★ 5

Lyon: Rabbit Rescue1896

★ 4.8

Panorama des rives de la Seine à Paris, III1897

★ 5.7

The Sprinkler Sprinkled, [II]1896

★ 5

Giant and Dwarf1896

★ 5

Maximilianeum1896

★ 5.3

Équilibre et moulinet1899

★ 5.3

Ronde enfantine1897

Children's Scene1896

★ 5.3

Children's Scene1896

★ 4.5

Procession of the Fat Ox (Prince Carnival's Float)1897

Boat at Sea1896

★ 4.4

Boat at Sea1896

★ 4.8

Cat Meal1896

★ 4.8

Londres : entrée de Hyde Park1896

★ 4.6

Paris, Place de la République1897

★ 4.6

Concert1896

★ 4.6

Boarding1896

★ 4.4

Negro Bathing1896

Firefighters: Battery Deployment1896

★ 4.4

Firefighters: Battery Deployment1896

★ 4.3

Mid-Lent: float of the Queen of Queens1897

99e régiment d'infanterie : assaut du portique1897

★ 4.5

99e régiment d'infanterie : assaut du portique1897

★ 4.5

Leaving Church1896

★ 4.5

Arc de Triomphe1896

★ 4.5

Rue Alsace-Lorraine1896

★ 5

Place de la Concorde (View taken from the West Side)1897

★ 6

Grand Canal avec barques1898

★ 6

Panorama des rives de la Seine, II1897

★ 6

Panorama des rives de la Seine, I1897

★ 6

Hairstyles1896

★ 6

Postplatz1896

★ 5.5

Naples : une rue1897

★ 4.2

Magician, [I]1897

★ 4.2

Baby Contest1896

★ 4.2

Old District at the Exhibition1896

★ 4.3

Washing of a Negro Child, II1897

★ 4.5

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, [IV]1897

★ 5

Mâcon: Panorama taken from a Train1896

★ 4

Danse des Ciociari1897

★ 4

Espagne : courses de taureaux1897

★ 4

Cavalcade (Silk Chariot)1896

★ 4

Panorama des rives de la Seine, IV1897

★ 4

Boats1897

★ 4

Via Marina1897

★ 4

Venise : place Saint-Marc1897

★ 3.8

Cheval de haute école, II1897

★ 1

Le forum1896

★ 3.8

Rome, pont Ripetta1896

★ 3.7

Boxers in Barrels1897

★ 3.5

Via Roma1897

★ 3

Naples : Santa Lucia1897

★ 3

View of the Saône Riverbanks from a Boat1897

★ 3

Dragoons: Swordsmanship1897

★ 3

Disembarkment1896

★ 3

Sword Practice1896

★ 2

Loading a Horse1896

★ 1

The Skaters1898

★ 1

Carnival, [VII]1897

★ 1

Carnival, [IV]1897

★ 1

Carnival, [V]1897

★ 1

Carnival, [III]1897

★ 1

Carnival, [VI]1897

★ 1

Via Carlo Alberto1897

★ 1

The Stock Exchange1896

★ 1

Market1896

★ 1

Boxers1896

★ 1

Swans1896

★ 1

Carabiniers1896

★ 1

Infanterie1896

★ 1

Russian Dance1896

★ 1

Fencing Lesson: Assault1896

Cuirassiers: Departure1896

★ 1

Cuirassiers: Departure1896

★ 1

Cuirassiers: Melee (Length: 12 meters)1896

★ 1

Cuirassiers: As Foragers (Charge)1896

★ 1

96th Line in Motion1896

★ 1

Watering Trough1896

★ 1

Stuttgart: 26th Dragoons Jumping Obstacles1896

★ 1

Lombards Brücke1896

★ 1

Schlossplatz1896

★ 1

Fountain on the Schlossplatz1896

★ 1

Karlsplatz1896

★ 1

Stuttgart: 26th Dragoons. Parade1896

★ 1

Firefighters' Alert1896

★ 1

Regent Street1896

★ 1

The Rising Guard at Buckingham Palace1896

★ 1

Hyde Park1896

★ 1

Guards on Horseback1896

★ 1

Fontaine de Trevi1896

★ 1

Loading the Fishing Nets1896

★ 1

Rochers de la Vierge (Biarritz)1896

★ 2.3

Family Meal1896

Inauguration of the Water Tower1900

Le chat qui joue1899

Evian : arrivée d’un bateau1899

99th Infantry Regiment: Rings and Trapeze1897

Une partie de lawn-tennis, I1897

Villefranche : arrivée d'un train1897

Acrobatic Ladies1897

Departure of a Transatlantic Crossing1897

Carpenter and Cardboard Maker1897

Colin-maillard1897

Nanny and Cuirassier1897

Tourists Returning from an Excursion1897

Départ d’un bateau à vapeur sur le lac Léman1897

Prestidigitateur, II1897

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Gathering1897

The "Brennus"1897

The "Magenta"1897

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Parade at a Gymnastic Pace1897

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Parade1897

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Obstacle Course1897

27th Chasseurs Alpins: Mass Parade of the Battalion1897

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Flexibility Exercises1897

27th Chasseurs Alpins: Weapons Handling1897

24th Chasseurs Alpins: Bayonet Drills1897

27th Chasseurs Alpins: Staff Exercise1897

27th Chasseurs Alpins: Assault on the Portico1897

27th Chasseurs Alpins: Parade1897

Exercice de boxe1897

Cheval de haute école, I1897

Chiens : défilé de meutes1897

Cuirassé américain “San Francisco” en rade de Villefranche (panorama)1897

Cheval sauteur1897

Le ballon1897

Les chapeaux, II1897

Chapeaux et équilibres1897

Le gendarme et le voleur1897

Sauts à la corde1897

L’homme-chien1897

Sauts périlleux1897

Negro Children's Meal, II1897

Washing of a Negro Child, I1897

Negro Children's Playtime1897

Negro Children's School1897

Crosswise Pommel Horse Jumps1897

Parallel Bars, I1897

Group Movements1897

Group Movements1897

99th Infantry Regiment: Fixed Bars1897

Artillery: Parade at a Trot1897

Dragoons: Galloping Parade1897

Dragoons: Obstacle Jumps in Two Rows1897

Dragoons: Obstacle Jumps in Two Rows1897

Dragoons: Obstacle Jumps across Multiple Rows1897

Dragoons: Obstacle Jumps across Multiple Rows1897

Dragoons: Mass Obstacle Jumping1897

Dragoons: Spear Combat1897

Dragoons: Spear handling1897

Military Review: Artillery at a Gallop1897

Military Review: Infantry Parade1897

Military Review: Parade of the Train Corps1897

Military Review: Firefighters' Parade1897

Military Review: Presentation of Medals, I1897

Elephants1896

Cours Belsunce1896

Negroes on Forced Labor1896

Cavalcade (Roman and Abyssinian Warriors)1896

Dance on Stage (Pas de Deux)1896

Cast Net Fishing1896

Firefighters: Rescue1896

Sheep Entering the Slaughterhouse1896

Fencing Lesson: Salute1896

Procession on the Schlossplatz1896

Procession on Horseback1896

Cortège du prince Weimar1896

Procession of Ancient Germanic Tribes1896

Stuttgart: 26th Dragoons. Dismount1896

Cuirassiers: Boots and Saddles1896

Cuirassiers: Boots and Saddles1896

Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière1895

99th Infantry Regiment: Sword Duel

99th Infantry Regiment: Sword Duel-

99th Infantry Regiment: Baton-

99th Infantry Regiment: Long Jumps-

Also in front of the camera

The roles they played on screen.

All on-screen roles

★ 4.8

Women Fighting1896

★ 5.7

Photograph1896