Société Lumière

Porters carry baskets full of fish, while others carry bundles, on their shoulders, in Yokohama harbor.

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

Several military companies parading, on foot, in front of Wilhelm II, in Breslau, Germany (nowadays Wroclaw, Poland).

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).

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

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

Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes.

Félicien Trewey swirls a large white ribbon around him.

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.

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

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.

Italian and German sovereigns, Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy, Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, walking down the stairs and boarding two gondolas.

Three girls and a boy playing with their toys.

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

Félicien Trewey mimes Pierrot being harassed in his sleep by a fly.

Herding cows

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

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street.