Movies: Societe Lumiere

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

Three girls and a boy playing with their toys....

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

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, and tries to woo her. Will Harlequin get back in time and rescue her?...

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

A magician enters a café and sets about introducing his act, but a waiter interferes and throws him out the door. Disgruntled, the magician decides to take revenge, and he has more than one trick up his sleeve....

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)....

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other....

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