Watch demolition of a wall HDToday. Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.
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Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
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A day in the life of a train station.
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The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
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A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.
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The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...