Course en sacs (1896)

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

One night, Arlequin comes to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.

Angelic and demonic serpentine dances from dawn of cinema. The dancer is Loie Fuller; the pioneer modern dancer. Recorded in Paris, and hand-colored frame by frame.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

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 the road becomes the target of opportunity. He falls off his bicycle. He's not hurt, but he rides back the way he came, as the fight continues.

The first travelling shot.

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

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

A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with his bare hands.

A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding baby his lunch, while mum is serving tea.

Friends and relatives playing a game of boules, arguing about who's team is winning.

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell cat, with long hair and a very furry tail, has leapt onto the table.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water, causing a cloud of vapor in the process.

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.

1560년, 스페인 원정대는 아마존 강 기슭에 있다는 황금의 도시 엘도라도를 향해 모험을 나선다. 아무도 가보지 않은 전설의 땅으로 가는 길이 험난해지자 피사로 장군은 우루수아를 대장으로 임명하고, 40명의 선발대를 뗏목에 태워 강으로 먼저 보낸다. 원정대와 선발대가 약속한 사전 조사 기간은 일주일, 하지만 엘도라도에 대한 강한 정복욕에 사로잡힌 아귀레는 대장 우루수아를 가두고 반란을 일으킨다. 배고픔과 질병, 식인종들의 습격 속에서 작은 뗏목은 커다란 광기에 휩싸이는데...

The launching of the ship Varèse in Livourne.

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.

A group of highly skilled acrobats perform.