Auguste Lumière

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

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of French cinema from its birth to the beginning of the 1960s. With commentary read by Jean Rochefort.

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

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

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left). Virtually overlooking the falls and surrounded by the swift current not far from the camera is a small island where six or eight tourists watch the water, talk, and move about.

A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about 20 persons in the party, walk past; the dignitaries are in front, attended by men with horns and drums. Coming in the other direction are local Swiss, who pay little attention, and a group of native-garbed Africans. The dozen or so well-dressed denizens of Geneva who are sitting on the steps of the Divan take it all in.

Passers-by on a street market in Marseille.

Turcos regiment parade.

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

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

A short documentary clip released by Pathé Frères.

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

Short film from (1897)

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

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

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?

Asian and Near Eastern diplomats and royalty file past the camera on their way to the coronation of Czar Nicholas II of Russia.

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