Société Lumière

Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II ride past on horseback before the cheering crowd.

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

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

“His Majesty King Umberto II and the Queen of Italy in Monza.” King Umberto I and Queen Margaret of Savoy descend the stairs, followed by a few people, then get into a carriage.

Traffic of pedestrians, trams, horse-drawn carriages and carts at the intersection of two streets.

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

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

Several companies of soldiers parade on foot in front of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Sardinian horsemen parading, in traditional costumes.

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.

On a street, a man greets passers-by and welcomes two cyclists and three horse riders who stop along the sidewalk.

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street.

Four Ainu men, performing a traditional dance, somewhere near Muroran, Hokkaido.

Elena of Montenegro and Victor Emmanuel III, followed by their escort.

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

Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.

Panorama of the battleship "Brennus" flagship of the French fleet