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AP Television Paris, France, 14 September 2009 1. Mid shot three Tiffany lamps 2. Tilt up Tiffany lamp 3. Pan inside exhibition room 4. Mid shot worker replacing light bulb on Tiffany lamp 5. Wide shot stained-glass windows representing...

The annual Los Angeles Antiques, Art + (sic) Design Show is all about mixing antiques with vintage pieces from the 20th Century. Up for sale are Imperial Russian icons, gold sculptures, Italian crystal chandeliers and French enamel...

CLEAN : Controversial piano genius Pogorelich makes comeback

Clip 2 from a French-language film about fairground entertainers from 1947. French narration. Shot of a shakespearean-looking play in a theatre. Fairground caravan traveling through countryside towards Fontainebleau. Fairground people...

Clip 6 from a French-language film about fairground entertainers from 1947. French narration. Children buy ice cream and candy floss. Acrobats perform tricks. Children play games for prizes. GV of fairground and a bunch of balloons.

Clip 2 from Au Creux des Sillons. French language film about the history of sound recording made in 1958 with the help of Pathe-Marconi. Shows the process of manufacturing vinyl discs from studio recording to factory. Historical...

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A detailed view of Edouard Manet's iconic ""Dejeuner sur l'Herbe"".

VOICED: One century on, the guano boom is back

THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE SAYS SHE'S 'THRILLED' FOR PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN The Duchess of Cambridge said Tuesday (28 NOV. 2017) that she's "absolutely thrilled" about her brother-in-law Prince Harry's engagement to Meghan...

The Duchess of Cambridge said on Tuesday she's "absolutely thrilled" about her brother-in-law Prince Harry's engagement to Meghan Markle. Kate commented on the upcoming royal nuptials on a visit to the Foundling Museum in...

Scenes from outside and inside St. Patrick's Cathedral, Karachi's biggest and most important church. Colour corrected.

Scenes from outside and inside St. Patrick's Cathedral, Karachi's biggest and most important church

Clip 1 from the 1940s French film 'Cabarets Montmartrois (Une Evocation Parisienne) with re-enactments of street scenes and cabarets in Paris in 1889, Montmartre. In this clip, a cover of notebook. Pictures of the Eiffel Tower during...

Clip 5 from a French-language film about fairground entertainers from 1947. French narration. A man dressed as a colonialist presents a cage containing two Kanak people. One of them performs fire-breathing / fire-eating and the other...

Caspar David Friedrich is mostly known for his allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative silhouettes against night skies. Less known are his landscape paintings without figures, removing in a way the sublime effect...

marching soldiers

EDIT CMD833334 Politicians entering the Reichstag building in Berlin People and fashion, Berlin, turn of the century

May.26 -- New Zealand’s indigenous people, the Maori, were guaranteed equality when they signed a treaty with the British Crown in 1840, but through the brutal nature of colonization they would lose about 97% of their land through...

Berlin at the Imperial Age. contains early footage of shops in Berlin/street organ/

German industrialism

Victory Column Berliner Dom

The painting ""Madame Recamier"" by Jacques Louis David exhibits perfectly the taste for Classical Antiquity at that time. The neutral and incomplete background provides highlight to the refined figure.