Chutes du Rhin vues de loin

A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

Footage of the German airship Hansa over Copenhagen.

This short film shows how the war department utilizes a Ph.D., a chimp, and three dogs to help design aptitude tests for men applying for work.

Lumière Brothers film automobiles driving at the Champs-Elysées.

A battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A man is manoeuvring a handcart bearing the inscription "Sunlight Soap" in the foreground.

Overview of the Alexandre III bridge during the World Exhibition in Paris.

Marquesas in their sedan chairs.

Lyon, Men rescue rabbits from flood.

19th century carnival ride.

The main market square in the heart of Brussels.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

A group of women dressed up as Commedia dell'Arte characters dance together.

A group of young women and children enjoy a rowdy picnic in the countryside.

Descent of the Great Pyramid.

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 reason, the first shot made in Macedonia, in the Balkans in fact, made by these two cinematography pioneers, contains peculiar symbolics: at the moment when the grandmother Despina spins the weaving wheel, film starts rolling in our country.

Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth century.

Young people dive into the sea by jumping off a manmade wooden raft, while a small boat loaded with passengers passes by.

An impression of the funeral parade for Victoria, Queen of England, filmed in London (via https://catalogue-lumiere.com/le-char-funebre/)

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.