Alexandre Promio

Alexandre Promio

Nascimento : 1868-07-09, Lyon, France

Morte : 1926-12-24

História

Jean Alexandre Louis Promio (9 July 1868 – 24 December 1926) was a French film photographer and director.

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Alexandre Promio

Filmes

Entrée du “Charlemagne” à Bizerte
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Revue du Bardo : délégations tunisiennes
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Revue du Bardo : cavalerie
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Revue du Bardo : commencement du défilé. État-major. Pompiers
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M. le président descendant l’escalier du Bardo
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Le Bey de Tunis et les personnages de sa suite descendant l'escalier du Bardo
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Le cortège à Constantine
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Défilé des chameaux avec les Bassours
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M. le président se rend au déjeuner en gare de Perrégaux
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M. le président se rendant au déjeuner à Sidi-Bel-Abbès
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Arrivée de M. le président à Sidi-Bel-Abbès
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Arrivée de M. le président à Saint-Denis-du-Sig
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Le cortège à Pointe-Pescade
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Le cortège à Chéragas
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M. le président au palais d’été, à Mustapha
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Arrivée de M. le président sur le terrain de la revue à Alger
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La remise des décorations
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Arrivée à la revue d’Alger de la délégation anglaise
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M. le président montant à la tribune pour la revue
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M. le président au palais d’hiver
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Le cortège
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Débarquement de M. le président à Alger
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Panorama du port d'Alger (suite du précédent)
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Continuation of the previous one.” [cf. n ° 27] Panorama of the quays and the city.
Biskra : une noce indigène
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Exotic street scene with men riding camels.
Biskra : enfants indigènes ramassant des pièces de monnaie
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Départ de la place du Gouvernement à Alger
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Ligne d’Alger à Koléa : le grand ravin
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Panorama du port d'Alger
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Panorama of the port of Algiers.
Algiers-Koléa Line: Tunnel of Point Pescade
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Panorama de um pequeno túnel, uma paisagem árida e depois uma cidade.
Fort-de-France : négrillons jouant sous les arbres
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Fort-de-France : femmes portant des corbeilles
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Fort-de-France : marché
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Carrosses de la cour. Fin du cortège
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Le char funèbre
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An impression of the funeral parade for Victoria, Queen of England, filmed in London (via https://catalogue-lumiere.com/le-char-funebre/)
Hussards et dragons
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Royal regiment d’artillerie
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Irish Guards. Scots Guards
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Armée indienne
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Bataillon Royal Irish Regiment
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Troupes coloniales
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Cortège. Musique des Household et corps des volontaires
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Vue prise d'une baleinière en marche
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Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.
Combat sur la voie ferrée
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XIII. La résurrection
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XII. La mise au tombeau
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XI. Le calvaire
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X. La mise en croix
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Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.
IX: The Crown of Thorns
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Um soldado, por ordem de Herodes, coloca na testa de Cristo uma coroa de espinhos, enquanto outros dois soldados trazem a cruz com a qual obrigam Jesus a cuidar, levando-o ao lugar onde ele deve ser crucificado.
VIII: The Flagellation
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Cristo é levado a Herodes, acompanhado por José e Maria Madalena. Jesus está amarrado à coluna no centro da sala do tribunal; então, por ordem de Herodes, um soldado ataca a Cristo pela recusa em responder ao ser interrogado. A Virgem e Maria Madalena beijam o manto de Jesus, enquanto José implora em vão a piedade de Herodes.
VII: The Arrest of Jesus Christ
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Jesus, cercado por José, a Virgem e Maria Madalena, repousa na floresta. Ele acorda com o barulho da chegada de Herodes acompanhado por Judas. O último aponta para Herodes, a quem ele vendeu para ele. Entrada dos soldados que pegam Jesus e o prendem.
VI. La cène
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The Last Supper, part 6 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play.
V. Résurrection de Lazare
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IV. Trahison de Judas
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III. L'arrivée à Jérusalem
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II. La fuite en Égypte
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The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ
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The Lumière catalog sold this title as 13 individual, one-scene films, allowing exhibitors to choose which films they wanted to purchase and how to arrange them in their programs. Lumière catalog no. 933 through 945.
The Adoration of the Magi
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The first scene in the 1898 Passion Play
Course de matelots
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Short film from 1897
Débarquement et feu de mousqueterie
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Branle-bas de combat
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Régates (retour)
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Régates (aller)
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Hello from the Yardarms
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Os marinheiros sobem no mastro, tiram os seus chapéus e saúdam.
Arrivée d’un bateau et mise à l’ancre
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Explosion en mer
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Défilé de l’artillerie de marine
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Défilé de la compagnie de débarquement, II
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Défilé de la compagnie de débarquement, I
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Embarquement d’un boeuf
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Ramassage du linge
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Essuyage du pont
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Lavage du pont, II
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Lavage du pont, I
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Défilé d’inspection à bord des artilleurs et torpilleurs mineurs
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Défilé d’inspection à bord de la compagnie de débarquement
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Escrime au sabre
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Sailors training with swords.
Salut aux couleurs
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Remise des médailles de Madagascar
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Départ des permissionnaires
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Départ du canot major
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Embarquement des marins dans leurs canots
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L’amiral rentrant à bord
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Les cuirassés de l’escadre (panorama)
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Néron essayant des poisons sur des esclaves
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Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor. (IMDb)
Voyageur et voleurs
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Dentiste
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Jury de peinture
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Belfast, exercices de sauvetage
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Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.
Mort de Charles Ier
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Interview Between Napoleon and the Pope
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This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss the coronation.
Death of Marat
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This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary writer, Jean-Paul Marat--who has the notorious distinction of having influenced the Reign of Terror.
Mort de Robespierre
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One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.
Assassinat de Kleber
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Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.
Les dernières cartouches
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Signature du traité de Campo-Formio
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Faust : métamorphose de Faust et apparition de Marguerite
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Faust : apparition de Méphistophélès
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A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.
Bataille d’enfants à coup d’oreillers
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Une farce à la chambrée
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Scène chez l’antiquaire
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Chez le juge de paix
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Napoléon et la sentinelle
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Danseur russe
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Les boxeurs et le spectateur trop curieux puni
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Nounou et soldats
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Chez le cordonnier
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The Assassination of the Duke de Guise
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This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.
Cinghalais : danse des couteaux, III
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Cinghalais : danse des couteaux, II
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Cinghalais: danse des couteaux, I
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Les deux ivrognes
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Les tribulations d'une concierge
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Le charpentier maladroit
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Colleurs d'affiches
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A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.
La défense du drapeau
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As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.
Panorama de la ligne de Peterhof
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Revue de Krasnoïe Selo : pages
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Revue de Krasnoïe Selo : infanterie
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Revue de Krasnoïe Selo : grenadiers
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Revue de Krasnoïe Selo : artillerie de forteresse
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Revue de Krasnoïe Selo : cosaques
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Revue de Krasnoïe Selo : artillerie
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Revue de Krasnoïe Selo : charge des hussards de l’impératrice
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Officiers russes attachés au président et journalistes
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M. le président passant devant la compagnie d’honneur
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Arrivée de M. le président à Saint-Pétersbourg
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Suite du cortège passant devant l’amiral Avellan
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Arrivée de M. le président et du tsar à Peterhof
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Bruxelles, Sainte-Gudule
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A shot of traffic, Sainte-Gudule in Bruxelles.
Bruxelles, la bourse
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A shot of traffic in front of Palais de la Bourse, Bruxelles.
Bruxelles, Place de Brouckère
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A shot of traffic, Place de Brouckère in Bruxelles.
Bruxelles, Boulevard Anspach
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Another street scene of daily life.
Bruxelles, Grand’Place
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The main market square in the heart of Brussels.
Panorama de la ville pris d’un bateau
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Anvers : arrivée en Bateau
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Belfast : Pompiers: un incendie, II
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Belfast, pompiers : Un Incendie, I
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Also known as 'Un incendie à Dublin I', 'Crowds Watch City Fire Brigade' and 'Crowds Watch Dublin Fire Brigade.' Lumiere Catalog no. 710.
Belfast, pompiers : exercices de sauvetage
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Belfast, Pompiers : Alerte
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Firefighters at work in Belfast.
13e hussards : charge
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13e hussards : exercices du sabre, pied à terre et départ
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13e hussards : arrivée et pied à terre
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13e hussards : défilé par douze
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13e hussards : défilé
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13e hussards : saut d’obstacles par douze
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13e hussards : saut d’obstacles
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Arrivée à Kingstown
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Dublin, Départ de la gare. Panorama
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Dublin, O'Connel Bridge
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Ligne de Belfast à Kingstown, III
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Ligne de Belfast à Kingstown, II
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Ligne de Belfast à Kingstown, I
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Soundy Mounts
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Départ de Lurgan
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Lisburn
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Départ de Dunmurry
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Panorama du départ de Belfast
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Belfast : Queen's Bridge
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Another critically acclaimed Lumiere street scene.
Belfast, Castle Place
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A street scene in Belfast showing several horse-drawn omnibuses.
Panorama de l'arrivée à Belfast
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Liverpool, panorama pris du chemin de fer électrique, IV
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Panorama das instalações portuárias.
Liverpool, panorama pris du chemin de fer électrique, III
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Lumière Catalogue No. 706. A moving shot taken from the electric train in Liverpool. Its vantage reveals ships and lumberyards.
Liverpool, panorama pris du chemin de fer électrique, II
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Lumière Catalogue No. 705. A view of the warehouses and docks taken from a local train in Liverpool, ending at the Princess Dock station.
Liverpool, panorama pris du chemin de fer électrique, I
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A moving image of the docks of Liverpool. Lumière Catalogue No. 704.
Liverpool, entrée dans Clarence Dock
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Clarence Dock
Liverpool, Lime Street
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Street scene in Liverpool.
Liverpool, la rade
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Liverpool, the sparse. Boats in Liverpool.
Liverpool, Church Street
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More 19th century city life.
Panorama du palais de Westminster pris de la Tamise
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Départ d’un bateau sur la Tamise
Director
Football
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Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.
Bateaux sur le lac de St-James Park
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Gardes à pied : marche de front
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Gardes à pied : exercices d’assouplissement
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Gardes à pied : exercices à la baïonnette
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Gardes à pied : maniement d’armes
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Gardes écossais à Hyde Park
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Fête du jubilé de la reine d'Angleterre : le cortège, l’artillerie à cheval
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Fête du jubilé de la reine d'Angleterre : le cortège, les cavaliers du Cap
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Fête du jubilé de la reine d'Angleterre : le cortège, l’artillerie de marine
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Fête du jubilé de la reine d'Angleterre : le cortège, les gardes du corps et la musique des dragons
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Fête du jubilé de la reine d'Angleterre : le cortège, les ambassadeurs
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Fête du jubilé de la reine d'Angleterre : Le cortège, les princes étrangers
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Fête du jubilé de la reine d'Angleterre : le cortège, la reine
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Another parade film from the Lumiere company.
Fête du jubilé de la reine d'Angleterre : la reine arrivant à Windsor
Director
Short film from (1897)
Fête du jubilé de la reine d'Angleterre : la foule suivant le cortège
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Arrivée de la garde au palais royal, II
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Arrivée de la garde au palais royal, I
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Avesta : les chutes
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Saltsjöbaden : départ en chemin de fer, panorama
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Strandvägen : panorama
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Norrström : panorama
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Norrström : débarquement
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Kastellholmen : panorama
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Une partie de lawn-tennis II
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A group of friends playing tennis.
Une bataille dans le vieux Stockholm
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A fight breaks out between two men in medieval Stockholm, Sweden.
Entrée du château dans le vieux Stockholm
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Arrivée d'un bateau et débarquement à l'exposition
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Arrivée à l'exposition en bateau
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Stockholm, entrée de l'exposition
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A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.
Entrée du cortège royal à l'Exposition
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The Swedish Royal family arrives at the General Art and Industrial Exposition at Djurgården in Stockholm on 15 May 1897.
Arrivée du kronprinz à l’exposition
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Arrivée du roi à l’exposition
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Constantinople, panorama de la corne d'or
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Panoramic view of Constantinople.
Constantinople, panorama des rives du Bosphore
Director
Panorama of Constantinople from the river.
Damas, Souk-el-Fakhra
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Damas, une place
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Beyrouth, Souk-Abou-el-Nassahr
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Beyrouth, place des canons
Director
Beirut: place cannons.
Caravane de chameaux
Director
Leaving Jerusalem by Railway
Director
Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train leaves Jerusalem.
Jérusalem : une rue
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Jérusalem : la Voie douloureuse et entrée du Saint-Sépulcre
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Jérusalem : la voie douloureuse
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Jérusalem, le saint sépulcre
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The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.
Jérusalem : Porte de Jaffa, côté ouest
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Jérusalem : porte de Jaffa, côté Est
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Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.
Bethléem, une place
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This street scene from Bethlehem shows a crowd of locals jumping on something in the middle of camera range. What are they seeking? The implication seems to be that they are beggars jumping on a handful of alms tossed onto the spot and the effect is simultaneously funny and sad.
Jaffa : panorama en chemin de fer (collines)
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Jaffa : panorama en chemin de fer
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Jaffa : débarquement d’une barque
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Jaffa : Marché, III
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Jaffa : Marché, II
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Jaffa : Marché, I
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Jaffa : arrivée d’un train
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Panorama des rives du Nil, [VIII]
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Panorama des rives du Nil, [VII]
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Panorama des rives du Nil, [VI]
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Panorama des rives du Nil, [V]
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Panorama des rives du Nil, [IV]
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Panorama des rives du Nil, [III]
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Panorama des rives du Nil, [II]
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Panorama des rives du Nil, [I]
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Panoramic view of the banks of the River Nile.
Départ de Toukh
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Départ de Benha
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Départ du Caire
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Village de Sakkarah (cavaliers sur ânes)
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Cairo, Artillery Parade
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An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé de l’artillerie turque"
Bourricots sous les palmiers
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Descent of the Great Pyramid
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Descent of the Great Pyramid.
The Pyramids (Overview)
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A view of the Great Sphinx with two of Giza's pyramids in the background. A caravan passes the scene.
Le Caire, défilé de l’infanterie
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Le Caire, Kasr-el-Nil
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Le Caire, sortie du pont de Kasr-el-Nil
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Le Caire, sortie du pont de Kasr-el-Nil (chameaux)
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Le Caire, pont de Kasr-el-Nil
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Barrage du Nil
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Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.
Le Caire, rue Tath-el-Rab’
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Le Caire, rue Sharia-el-Nahassine
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Le Caire, rue Ataba-el-Khadra
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Le Caire, rue Sayeda-Zeinab
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Le Caire, Place Soliman Pacha
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Le Caire : Place de l'Opéra
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Le Caire, Place du Gouvernement
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Le Caire, Place de la Citadelle
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Le Caire, un enterrement
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A funeral parade in Cairo.
Bédouins avec chameaux sortant de l’octroi
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Place Méhémet Ali
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Embarquement
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Arrivée du train de Ramleh
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Procession of the sacred carpet
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Procession of the sacred carpet.
Le khédive et son escorte
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Garde descendante du Palais Saint James
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Sackville Street, Dublin
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One reel containing actuality footage of Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street). Some of the earliest known film footage of Ireland.
Souk el Bey
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Marché aux légumes
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Marché aux poissons
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Marché
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Passers-by on a street market in Marseille.
Place Bab-Souika
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Rue Sidi-Ben-Arous
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Rue El-Halfaouine
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Porte de France
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Rue et porte Bab-el-Khadra
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Marché aux charbons (avec chameaux)
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Halte à la gare
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Tunis: Le Bey et son escorte
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Short from (1897)
Rue de France
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Rue Sidi-Bou-Medine
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Rue Mascara
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Alger : déchargement au port
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Porters bring goods into a warehouse.
Alger: rue Bab-Azoun
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Another street scene from the Lumiere company
Alger : place du gouvernement
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A street scene with a government building in the background.
Marché arabe
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Anes
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An early Algerian film depicting donkeys
Alger : prière du muezzin
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A short clip from the Lumière Brothers.
Chargement d’un wagon de tonneaux
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Children Digging for Clams
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Children dig for clams on the beach
Panorama of St. Mark's Square Taken From a Boat
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Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau
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Panorama das fachadas dos palácios.
Turcos (défilé)
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Turcos regiment parade.
La foule sur la place de l’Opéra
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A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.
Paris : général Saussier et son état-major
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Dragons escorting officers on horseback.
Paris : dragons de l’escorte
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Dragon Parade, then passage of several carriages.
Paris : chasseurs à cheval et spahis de l’escorte
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Parade of hunters and Spahis.
Paris : les souverains russes et le président de la République aux Champs-Élysées
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Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by horsemen.
Niagara, les rapides
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Niagara Falls
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A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left). Virtually overlooking the falls and surrounded by the swift current not far from the camera is a small island where six or eight tourists watch the water, talk, and move about.
New York, patineurs au Parc central
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Rollerskating in Central Park.
New York, descente des voyageurs du pont de Brooklyn
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New York, travelers descent of the Brooklyn Bridge
New York, Brooklyn Bridge
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Métropolitain
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New York. Arrival of a Train at Battery Place
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Brooklyn, Fulton Street
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Brooklyn, Fulton Street
New York, Whitehall Street
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Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.
New York: Broadway at Union Square
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New York, Broadway et Reade Street
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New York, Broadway and Wall Street
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Movement of pedestrians, cabs, carts and trams at the crossroads of two avenues.
New York, Broadway
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A short black and white film in which a fixed camera records a busy New York street, Broadway.
New York, Avenue et Union Square
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Lumiere street scene.
Chicago, Michigan avenue
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Chicago, Grande Roue
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A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.
Chicago Police Parade
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Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by an officer. All are men, all are white, all look tall, all wear identical high-buttoned uniforms and badges and carry a nightstick. Almost all sport mustaches. Behind the police comes a horse-drawn carriage.
Boston, Tremont row
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Boston, Atlantic avenue
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Boston, Commercial Street
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Boston, Commercial Street.
Boston, Market street
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Boston, Washington street
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Marble arch
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Pont de la Tour
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Londres, Piccadilly Circus
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A view of Piccadilly Circus in London.
Pelicans, London Zoological Garden
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Pelicanos brincam ao redor e dentro de uma bacia. Um guarda vem jogar comida para eles.
Tigers at the Zoo
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Teasing tigers with meat.
Lion, London Zoological Gardens
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A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the cage. The lion alternates between finding the food on the cage floor and reaching through the bars to swipe at the man, who stays alarmingly close to the beast. In the background are the large rocks and brick wall at the back of the lion's habitat.
Lutteurs javanais
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Jongleur javanais
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Danse javanaise
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Cortège au mariage de la princesse Maud
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A large wedding procession.
Déchargement d’un navire
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Artillerie (exercice du tir)
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Garde descendante du palais royal
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Hallebardiers de la reine
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Danse au bivouac
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Soldiers dancing.
Distribution des vivres aux soldats
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Cyclistes militaires
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Défilé du génie
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Lanciers de la reine : défilé
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The Queen's Lancers: Charge [Spain]
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Short from 1896.
Porte de Tolède
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Short from (1896)
Puerta del Sol
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A street scene from Spain.
Madrid, arrivée des toréadors
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Matadors exiting carriages in Madrid.
Place Bel-air
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Washing Day in Switzerland
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Women and infants do laundry in this promotional film for Sunlight soap.
Rentrée à l'étable
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Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.
Fête au village
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Danse égyptienne
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Arab Cortege, Geneva
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A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about 20 persons in the party, walk past; the dignitaries are in front, attended by men with horns and drums. Coming in the other direction are local Swiss, who pay little attention, and a group of native-garbed Africans. The dozen or so well-dressed denizens of Geneva who are sitting on the steps of the Divan take it all in.
Cascade
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Review of U.S. Military
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A short clip of United States military on horses
Boats in the New York Harbor
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A short film of boats sailing in the New York Harbor