Société Lumière

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

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 train pulls into the station, and the crowd of travelers invades the dock.

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

Two children, playing in the garden, with a dog and a cat.

Pedestrian traffic on a square, somewhere in Tokyo.

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.

George Footit & Rafael Patodos starts fighting.

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 guards escorts the imperial dais while the Tsar and Tsarina make their way into the church. An early actuality offering rare moving-image documentation of a major royal ritual.

Three girls and a boy playing with their toys.

King Umberto I and Prince Victor Emmanuel, followed by their escort, parade the troops standing at attention.

Two gondolas, slowly approaching, dock along the wharf, and both Italian and German sovereigns disembark: Umberto I accompanied by Wilhelm II, and Margherita of Savoy accompanied by Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street.

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

A gentleman having lunch at a hostelry experiences all kinds of mishaps.

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

Men carrying baskets on poles and women carrying loads on backpacks are seen coming and going in a port.

A small boy feeds his dog sugar cane by making him perform high jumps.