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People waiting in line for, what one can only assume, a Lumiere production.

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

View of a group of Milanese rowers. The video was made by the operator Giuseppe Filippi, the official dealer of the Lumière Brothers for the...

Shot both on and from an elevated electric train.

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

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

A street scene in Munich from the Lumière Brothers.

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

"These rocks, near Biarritz, are very well known. The scene shows the rough sea hitting their feet. There are no characters."

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

A military horseback riding event from 1897.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

A clergyman is startled by a group of automatons.

A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.

In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching...

A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.

Visitors at a historical fair in the mediaeval city of Dresden.

A group of children in a pillow fight.

This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The aim is to break down the usual clichéd...