Movies: Societe Lumiere

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

The scene takes place outside a café. Two workers are desperate to be served drinks, and the owner is forced to call in a policeman, who has great difficulty in expelling the two drunks....

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street....

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

The German infantry parades in front of Nicholas II and Wilhelm II....

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....

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

A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne....

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Lancers parading, during the inauguration ceremony of William I's monument 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)....

A group of Japanese, eating dinner, somewhere in Kyoto, Honshu....

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

A crowd of passers-by is granted access to a drawbridge by its gatekeeper....

A battalion of Bersaglieri charging, at the double, comes to a full stop; the first line goes down on bended knee, while others remain standing; and all fire their weapons repeatedly....

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Passers-by on a street market in Marseille....

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

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Filmed during the coronation ceremonies of Nicholas II in Moscow in 1896, this short by Lumière operator Francis Doublier shows the imperial procession approaching the Cathedral of the Assumption in the Kremlin. As the crowd advances, a company of gu...