This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...

A military horseback riding event from 1897.

American Indians dancing.

Panorama of Nice from the deck of a ship.

Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.

A steamboat coming to port.

Teasing tigers with meat.

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...

Lumière Brothers film automobiles driving at the Champs-Elysées.

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of...

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

The first travelling shot.

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.

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

With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink,...

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.

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

Lumière Brothers film automobiles driving at the Champs-Elysées.