Stockholm, entrée de l'exposition

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

A high-speed travel through Paris on trains and on the Seine.

Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.

This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reas...

Boys diving into a river.

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

A persistent trumpeter tries to join a string quartet that doesn't want him.

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be seen.

The end of the Longchamp parade and departure of the President, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

19th century carnival ride.

Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

A Berlin street scene.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

President Félix Faure, escorted by horsemen, marching past the troops at Longchamp.

New York, travelers descent of the Brooklyn Bridge

London to Brighton in 4 minutes BBC interlude. From the days when TV was all live and programming was hectic. Often when one program finished, the next one was not ready yet, and the gap had to be fil...

A review of engineers at the Longchamp parade, filmed by the Lumière brothers.

Sovereign Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna and President Félix Faure, walking by, followed by their respective escorts.

A wedding party leave church in this Lumière brothers' short film.