

Porters carry baskets full of fish, while others carry bundles, on their shoulders, in Yokohama harbor.

Another parade film from the Lumiere company.

Short film from (1897)

Several members of European Royalty, including the Duke and Duchess of York, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, seated round a tea-table in the grounds of Clarence House.
A crowd of spectators listen to President William McKinley's speech during his inauguration ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Officers and soldiers, followed by a military band, parade in front of decorated grandstands.



As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

This film shot by Oskar Messter shows a visit by Wilhelm II the AG Vulcan in Szczecin, one of the then leading shipyards in Germany. On display are the Emperor and some military and civil dignitaries, who walk on the landing stage of the factory site on the occasion of the launch of the transatlantic speed steamer "Kaiser Wilhelm the Great" a group of spectators. In his memoirs Messter has described the motion picture as "the first good close-up of the Emperor."


A fight breaks out between two men in medieval Stockholm, Sweden.





