Alexandre Promio
Alexandre Promio was a pioneering French cinematographer and director who played a crucial role in the early development of motion pictures. As a key figure in the Lumière Brothers' company, he helped introduce and spread cinema across Europe and beyond, capturing some of the... Read full bio →
Salut dans les vergues
The sailors climb the mast, remove their hats and salute.
Stockholm, entrée de l'exposition
A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.
Les tribulations d'une concierge
Fêtes du jubilé de la Reine d'Angleterre: la Reine arrivant à Windsor
Short film from (1897)
Entrée du cortège royal à l'Exposition
The Swedish Royal family arrives at the General Art and Industrial Exposition at Djurgården in Stockholm on 15 May 1897.
Départ de Jérusalem en chemin de fer
Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then local Arab residents, then Jewish residents of the city - as a train leaves Jerusalem, then part of the Ottoman Empire.
Colleurs d'affiches
A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.
Venise, panorama de la place Saint-Marc pris d'un bateau
Panorama of the facades of the palaces and St. Mark's Square.
Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau
Filmed in 1896 by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière company, this short actuality presents one of the earliest traveling shots in cinema. With the camera mounted on a gondola, the film glides along Venice’s Grand Canal, capturing passing gondolas, bustling waterfront activity, and the city’s iconic architecture from a moving perspective.
New York, descente des voyageurs du pont de Brooklyn
Passengers descend from the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.
New York, Whitehall Street
Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.
New York, Broadway
A short black and white film in which a fixed camera records a busy New York street, Broadway.
Fêtes franco-russes : Paris, les souverains russes et le Président de la République Félix Faure aux Champs-Elysées
Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by horsemen.
Fêtes franco-russes : Paris, la foule sur la place de l'Opéra
A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.
Chicago défilé de policemen
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.