00.00.01 Three children skipping rope
00.00.07 Peasant women plowing some land
00.00.17 Horse drawn carriage preceded by three soldiers and followed by a group of women
00.00.49 People in a meal line eating out of tin dishes
00.01.05 Elegant party, two little girls carry a tray
00.01. 14 Title card- Paris 1900
00.01.20 Ferris wheel
00.01.24 Windmill
00.01.36 The Moulin Rouge.
00.01.46 Man crossing busy street
00.02.02 Statue in the Plaza de Republique in Paris
00.02.40 Crowd scene in flower market
00.03.10 Policemen on bicycles chase child thieves, thieves in turn steal the bicycles
00.03.40 Slapstick comedy of strong man fighting all of the policemen
00.04.46 The Eiffel Tower, including upward shots of its architecture
00.05.20 Men at a banquet table
00.06.10 Bizarre- statue of fat man spins around quite quickly
00.06.18 Nicholas II in a car
00.07.03 Train arrives in a station
00.08.02 Statue of woman posing spins around
00.08.30 Women are introduced to one another in a drawing room
00.08.54 Shots of beautiful women posing
00.09.30 Bizarre- woman pulls out pendant/cameo necklaces and jewelry, the women pictured in it move/dance around
00.10.0 Women model Edwardian dresses
00.10.24 Fashion drawings of men in suits
00.10.36 Statue of child in clownish costume spins around- these are possibly music boxes?
00.10.40 Ice skating
00.10.50 Womens field hockey
00.11.02 Bizarre game where women hit balloons around with paddles
00.11.40 Women with instruments and banners- possibly suffragettes
00.12.18 Extreme bodice/corset training
00.12.26 Large woman shows off her corset
00.12.40 Edwardian man checks pocket watch, poses for camera
00.12.53 Mustachioed man in front of camera, looks a lot like a young Einstein
00.13.20 Man paints nude woman in Impressionist style, possibly Matisse? I get the feeling the men posing in this sequence are all famous
00.14.14 More beautiful women posing, preceded by two women in elegant
costume
00.14.38 Woman doing a sort of showgirl dance
00.15.03 Woman in headdress does Indian dance
00.15.18 Automated fan moves slowly behind statue of boy
00.15.28 Woman (possibly Theda Bara) poses with fan
00.15.48 Man scales balconies- possible clip out of Les Vampires/Fantomas/the old French serials
00.16.40 Women comfort distraught looking woman on chair in garden
00.16.59 Woman vigorously pets two cats while posing for camera
00.17.39 Woman in bed feigns illness to three people
00.17.52 A couple ride bikes down a country road, then slip away into bushes in sexually suggestive manner
00.18.26 Man with gun contemplates woman on settee
00.18.39 Magic act- man in turban helps caterpillar puppet become butterfly
woman (when he is rejected by her he becomes a caterpillar)
00.19.01 Woman on settee awakes
00.19.07 Man taps his nose at camera
00.19.24 Superimposed ghostly man looks at dead woman surrounded by roses
00.19.47 Men in sauna
00.20.50 Parade, carriages and bike carts covered in flowers
00.21.30 Horse races and foot races
00.21.56 Men playing football
00.22.24 Car race
00.22.36 Hot air balloons
00.23.10 Prize greyhound
00.23.20 Hunting dogs gather before Pope Pius X
00.23.37 Hunting scenes
00.24.20 Family is helped out of carriage
00.24.48 Woman in wedding dress
00.25.04 Horse drawn carriages roll by Westminster Abbey
00.25.26 Boats covered in flowers float down a canal
00.26.14 Shots of the streets of Paris, flooded, quite dramatic panover to see base of Eiffel Tower submerged
00.27.10 Policeman pushing makeshift canoe
00.27.52 Horse submerged up to its neck
00.28.18 Men handing plants out to grasping crowd
00.29.13 Overhead shot of a fair, with carousels and rides
00.29.24 Japanese pagoda
00.29.28 Two men pretend to be Japanese, perform illusionist tricks with paper birds
00.30.06 Elephants march down a city street
00.30.40 Couple stroll down exotic looking gardens
00.32.50 Crowd waits for locomotive
00.34.15 Beachgoers in south of England (white cliffs- possibly Dover?)
00.35.59 Man and woman perform intricate dance
00.37.17 Showgirls perform dance at the Moulin Rouge
00.38.19 Contortionists and balancing acts
00.39.16 Comedy act with men in medieval costume
00.39.50 Crowd in cinema
00.40.0 Man dancing with giant bottle, totem pole head, etc (he later gets drunk and shouts at the moon)
00.41.22 Women in furs
00.41.50 Man has dramatic scene with woman fainting in his arms
00.42.10 More snippets of men talking, taking notes, etc
00.42.54 Man in Roman costume points at man in turban, beard
00.43.16 Wedding, close up on what looks like a bridesgroom
00.43.45 Woman pets small puppy
00.43.58 Line of posh people walking well-groomed dogs
00.44.50 Male athletes bounce onto a net and struggle to escape from it
00.45.17 Athletes balance on a horizontal pole, then crawl along it
00.45.27 Small boys participate in a go-cart race
00.46.05 Boy falls off, his go-cart falls apart
00.46.40 Man drives car up stairs, quite quickly presumably (title card reads: >looping the loop< at 80 km speeds!)
00.46.50 Bizarre car with cage around it to protect the driver rolls over a lot in front of a crowd
00.47.34 Newsreel title card: beauties compete for Miss Europa competition- fair champions of foreign lands parade before Paris judges
00.47.37 Women in gowns are paraded on a stage
00.47.58 Close up of beauty queens
00.48.16 Another newsreel title card concerning President Hoover fishing in Dixie
00.48.24 Hoover and wife walk down path with entourage
00.48.33 They board a yacht
00.48.42 Yacht sails away, American flag flapping in the wind
00.48.55 Polo horses run quickly on a field
00.49.16 Horse falls over (cringe-worthy), followed by more polo
00.49.50 Another nasty spill
00.50.14 Impressive shot of blimp in hangar- Graf Zeppelin
00.52.0 Japanese man with ridiculous moustache greets military officers
00.55.12 Hoover gives address to crowd
00.58.0 The zeppelin begins to exit the hangar
01.02.0 Survey of dead soldiers on frozen ground, close-up of a picture of Stalin
01.02.11 Close-up of a burnt, bombed-out building
01.03.01 Scientist in white lab coat measures out chemicals
01.03.18 Women model swimming/summer costumes
01.04.20 Excerpt from a film, elegant duchess (Marlene Dietrich?) is at a fancy dress party
01.04.40 Women in costume are revealed from behind portraits
01.06.20 Women doing the can-can
01.06.50 More modeling, women walking down staircases in dresses
01.07.25 Man takes pictures with cane camera
01.10.0 Woman narrates the preparations of some girls before they go to the ball