Société Lumière

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

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

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

Panorama of the docks, the city and the bridge of a boat sailing the Rhine river in Cologne, Germany.

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

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.

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

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

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

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street.

Shots of the panorama, filmed from the winding railroad tracks that stretch along the coast, from Beaulieu to Monaco, including tunnel passages.

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.

Shot of rocks being swept by the sea.

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

Officers and soldiers, followed by a military band, parade in front of decorated grandstands.

Sovereigns and their suite passing in front of the monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Sassari.

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