Societe Lumiere Movies

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

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

King Umberto I and Prince Victor Emmanuel, followed by their escort, parade the troops standing at attention.

Pierrot woos Columbine, who abandons Harlequin. An old witch hands Harlequin a magical flute that will make his wishes come true, whenever it is...

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

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

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

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...

Excursions in the mountains of a group of riders.

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

Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II ride past on horseback before the cheering crowd.

Officers and soldiers, followed by a military band, parade in front of decorated grandstands.

Traffic of pedestrians, trams, horse-drawn carriages and carts at the intersection of two 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....

A magician performs various tricks.

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

A group of four children, circle dancing.

Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.

Filmed during the coronation ceremonies of Nicholas II in Moscow in 1896, this short by Lumière operator Francis Doublier shows the imperial...

Harlequin is walking in a garden with Columbine. As he moves away to the distance and leaves her on her own, Mephisto appears, from inside a well,...