The Lumière catalog sold this title as 13 individual, one-scene films, allowing exhibitors to choose which films they wanted to purchase and how to arrange them in their programs. Lumière catalog no. 933 through 945.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

Soldiers ambush a house.

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary writer, Jean-Paul Marat--who has the notorious distinction of having influenced the Reign of Terror.

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

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss the coronation.

A balcony courting scene turns into a man being beaten in a sack.

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

A man does a practical joke on a chestnut vendor.

Soldiers try to defend themselves inside of a crumbling shack.

One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.

Staging of the title event.

Georges Hatot and Gaston Bretaeau with Henri Vallouy, a Gaumont employee, acting as cinematographer. Breteau himself seems to have taken the main role in most of the films and here plays the woman in drag who is terrorized by the X-ray camera at a customs checkpoint while trying to smuggle contraband through.