Societe Lumiere Movies

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

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

A woman, who tried to smuggle goods under her clothes, is brought to an excise duty office for further inspection.

A short film from the Lumière brothers showing crowds walking.

A sorcerer conjures an old witch and instructs her to seek a maiden. Said maiden is assigned with the task to lure a young traveler inside the castle....

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

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

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

Four Ainu men, performing a traditional dance, somewhere near Muroran, Hokkaido.

Passers-by on a street market in Marseille.

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

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

Rickshaws, trams and pedestrians traffic near the railway station in Tokyo.

Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.

Uniformed men march in step, in widely spaced ranks of each other.

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

Soldiers parade to the sound of military marches during the inauguration ceremony of Victor Emanuel II's monument in Turin.

Workers leaving the Lumière factory.

Passage of a Shintoist procession, whose members carry banners and lanterns, somewhere in Kyoto.

Pedestrian and vehicles traffic on the Mittlere Brücke in Basel, Switzerland.