Le temps des cathedrales

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

A religious procession during the Holy Week in Seville, Spain.

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by throwing pieces of clothing against a stain-glass church wi…

Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.

Various scenes from New Testament and Old: Christian martyrdom under Roman rule, Daniel in the lion's den, and Belshazzar's vision of a floating hand spelling the end of his rule.

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

View of the Westminster Bridge.

The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.

A costume drama from Roman times. Three out of the original six reels survive.

Panorama of Constantinople from the river.

The story of the life and ion of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of his birth to his ascension into heaven.

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

One of Chomón's documentary films: A short tour of the city of Girona, the "Venice of Spain". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for and then is martyred after she is captured.

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.

Time-lapse photography showing the one month-long demolition of the Star Theatre in New York.