Plej Vidataj Jaro 1897

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his...

Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train...

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along...

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

Angelic and demonic serpentine dance from dawn of cinema. Hand-colored frame by frame. Lumière no. 765 or 765.1 (colorized, different...

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.

[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of...

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

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...

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

"The picture shows the Devil working at a fire. Two cavaliers appear, and the Devil takes the form of a seer, old, bent and wrinkled. Then he...

Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.

Small glimpse of Paris city life.

From Edison films catalog: A long line of horses, mules and ponies are led, driven and ridden into the yards, where they are sold and distributed.

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in...

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart.