Societe Lumiere Movies

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

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. Alar...

Groups of men and women, parading in Interlaken, Switzerland, some of them carrying banners.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Queen Elisabeth of Wied, in a carriage escorted by cavalry, followed by King Carol I and Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern on horseback, greeted by the...

The crowd gathered along the fence wave their hats at the passing riders, before slowly starting to clear.

After several athletes have tried unsuccessfully to pole vault, one last gymnast performs a perfect jump.

Two gymnasts successively perform various exercises on a pommel horse.

Lancers parading, during the inauguration ceremony of William I's monument in Breslau, Germany (nowadays Wroclaw, Poland).