Movies: Societe Lumiere

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

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

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

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

Two men, arguing about the content of a newspaper article, come to blows....

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....

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

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)....

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...

Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine....

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....

A small boy feeds his dog sugar cane by making him perform high jumps....

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

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Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes....

Panorama of the battleships "Sardegna" and "Sicilia" at the naval review of Cagliari....

A woman, in her bedroom, is putting her jewelry away. Alarmed by strange noises at her door, she hides behind her bed. A burglar enters the room and steals her jewelry box. The woman calls for help, a police officer steps in and starts to chase the t...

Pedestrian, trams, carriages and carts traffic at the intersection of two streets on La Canebière in Marseille....

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?...

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....