Movies: Societe Lumiere

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets....

Two teams of artillery carriages, parading side by side past the grandstand during the inauguration ceremony of President McKinley in Washington DC....

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets....

A crowd of passers-by is granted access to a drawbridge by its gatekeeper....

Ainu people, performing a traditional dance, somewhere near Muroran, Hokkaido. A group of women is spot-dancing, while a man circles around them....

Sovereigns and their suite passing in front of the monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Sassari....

Porters carry baskets full of fish, while others carry bundles, on their shoulders, in Yokohama harbor....

Pierrot woos Columbine, who abandons Harlequin. An old witch hands Harlequin a magical flute that will make his wishes come true, whenever it is played. It is now time for Harlequin to play his tricks....

The German infantry parades in front of Nicholas II and Wilhelm II....

Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, on horseback, parade in front of the cheering crowd, during the inauguration ceremony of William I's monument in Breslau, Germany (nowadays Wroclaw, Poland)....

King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy stepping down a staircase, followed by their escort, before climbing into a horse-drawn carriage....

Two children, playing in the garden, with a dog and a cat....

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 great difficulty in expelling the two drunks....

The waterfalls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland, form a cloud of suspended droplets....

Several military companies parading, on foot, in front of Wilhelm II, in Breslau, Germany (nowadays Wroclaw, Poland)....

View of the German and Italian royal processions, at the iron mines of Monteponi....

Passers-by on a street market in Marseille....

A merchant is giving a demonstration of his lifelike automatons to a bedazzled customer. Could these "larger than life" clockwork figures look too good to be true?...

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets....

Excursions in the mountains of a group of riders....