Société Lumière

Friends and relatives playing a game of boules, arguing about who's team is winning.

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

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

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

While the crowd slowly moves forward, a company of guards and the Imperial dais enter the church.

Passage of three carriages, escorted by lackeys and soldiers.

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street.

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

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

People dismount and mount a gondola.

Panorama of the docks, the city and the bridge of a boat sailing the Rhine river in Cologne, Germany.

A train pulls into the station, and the crowd of travelers invades the dock.

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?

Three girls and a boy playing with their toys.

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

Short made in Mexico.

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