Société Lumière

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

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

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

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.

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

Passers-by on a street market in Marseille.

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.

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

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

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

Two men, arguing about the content of a newspaper article, come to blows.

Dense pedestrian, trams and cars traffic on the street, in front of the Palais de la Bourse in Marseille.

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.

View of the German and Italian royal processions, at the iron mines of Monteponi.

Traffic of pedestrians, carts and trams on a Washington avenue.

A merchant is giving a demonstration of his lifelike automatons to a bedazzled customer. Could these "larger than life" clockwork figures look too good to be true?

On the terrace of a villa, a violinist, two pianists and a singer are playing, until they are interrupted by a false note.

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