Movies: Societe Lumiere

Inside an operating room, a surgeon performs several procedures of "modern" surgery....

A cook mistakenly throws his kitchen boy into a huge pot while preparing a stew. Distraught, he attempts to make up for his mistake. Alas, Mephisto decides to get involved....

Two housemaids, arguing, start to fight : a houseboy steps in to separate them, and in doing so becomes their target and is literally torn apart. Alarmed by the quarrel, a policeman intervenes. Will order finally be restored?...

Pedestrian and rickshaws traffic on Shijo Kobashi bridge, in Kyoto....

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

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy then lifts his foot fro...

Three girls and a boy playing with their toys....

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

A young man explains to a small boy how to ride a bicycle....

A French family consisting of father, mother and two children, sitting around a table and eating a meal....

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

A gentleman having lunch at a hostelry experiences all kinds of mishaps....

A short film from the Lumière brothers showing crowds walking....

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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)....

George Footit & Rafael Patodos starts fighting....

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....

A fixed camera gets images of traffic and passers-by in Vienna's chic thoroughfare, popularly known as Ringstrasse (The Ring), at a junction with another large street....

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A magician enters a café and sets about introducing his act, but a waiter interferes and throws him out the door. Disgruntled, the magician decides to take revenge, and he has more than one trick up his sleeve....