Societe Lumiere Movies

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

A woman, in her bedroom, is putting her jewelry away. Alarmed by strange noises at her door, she hides behind her bed. A burglar enters the room and...

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

Pierrot woos Columbine, who abandons Harlequin. An old witch hands Harlequin a magical flute that will make his wishes come true, whenever it is...

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

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

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.

Harlequin is walking in a garden with Columbine. As he moves away to the distance and leaves her on her own, Mephisto appears, from inside a well,...

A magician performs various tricks.

Passersby stroll through the market aisles.

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.

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.

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

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

Under cover of a disguise, Santa approaches Saint-Anthony's hut and, via various tricks, sets out to try his faith. Will good triumph over evil?

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.