Albert Kahn

Departure of class 18 conscripts from Gare Montparnasse, Paris, April, 1917 The deployment of Class 18 was provided for by a law adopted on 1st March 1917. The departure took place on April 16 and marked the fourth…

Aspects of the city of Kapurthala, India, November, 1927
Operator Roger Dumas was on a mission in India from November to December 1927. He filmed Kapurthala's skyline, views of the city centre, public and religious…

City of Fes, Morocco, June – July, 1926
Camille Sauvageot spent a month in the Middle East and filmed the former Moroccan capital, Fes. He focused on landscapes, the exterior of the Sultan's Palace, the ramparts and the…

St. Catherine's Day, Rue de la Paix, Paris, November 25, 1922
Every year, November 25 is celebrated in France as “Catherinettes’ day”. According to a tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, 25-year-old girls who aren…

Czech visitors in the gardens of Albert Kahn, Boulogne-sur-Seine, April 24, 1921On this day, the Mayor of Prague Karel Baxa, his wife Amelia Jurković, Emanuel Čenkov (writer, member of the Prague delegation), Mrs.…

Prague, 1920In 1918, the Czechoslovak Republic was born in Prague. Emerging after the First World War and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, it could not have any other capital than Prague – Praga: Caput regni – the…

Sokol festival and congress, Prague, June, 1920 The film begins with a parade of Sokols joined by groups of Moldovan women in national costumes. Spectators are flooding the stands and President Masaryk is present, too.…

Views from the Ferris wheel, Paris, 1920 Panorama of the Champs de Mars and the Ecole Militaire shot from the Grande Roue, a Ferris wheel located at the intersection of Avenue de la Motte-Piquet and Avenue de Suffren.

Battlefields seen from an airship, Ailette, Reims, Paris, France, August, 1919 Lucien Le Saint, aboard a French Navy airship, flies over former battlefields in Northern France and Belgium, observing the state of cities…

Brothels in Beirut, Lebanon, November 21-25, 1919
The film depicts prostitutes and soldiers of the French army (Lebanese and French) standing in front of brothels. The operators were on mission to the Middle East,…

Popular restaurants known as Henri Roy, Paris, December 11, 1919
The film captures the first restaurants offering meals at 2 francs. Henri Roy was Commissioner of Supply under the government of Georges Clemenceau from…

Views taken from an airship, Paris, Boulogne, Saint-Cloud, Versailles, Sain-Cyr, August, 1919 Filming from an airship, the operator Lucien Le Saint captured Boulogne, Saint-Cloud, Versailles and the landing on the…

Ammunition workers in Renault factories, Boulogne-Billancourt, 1917The operator shoots women making grenades at Renault's factory. The end of the film shows their leaving the factory.

Les Grands Boulevards 2, Paris, 1917
The operator films a public pissoir on the Boulevard Saint-Martin in front of the side entrance to the Théâtre de la Renaissance. He then rides up the Boulevard Saint-Denis, passing…

Compilation of footage of the monastery on Mount Athos and refugee camps in Thessaloniki, Greece, August – September, 1913 Stéphane Passet travelled through the Balkans, Greece and Bulgaria from 30 August to 2 October…

Lamas in the streets of Urga, (today's Ulaanbaatar), Mongolia, July 20-25, 1913 Lama “servants” filmed in front of the Gandan Monastery building. Street scenes: Llamas relieve their bowels in the street. The operator…