The collection of films produced by the Lumiere brothers shows different scenes from Jerusalem and around Palestine in 1896. Alexandre Promio manage to capture two religions living side by side, both Jews and Muslims, during the Ottoman Empire. He had some difficulty getting his camera to be accepted. Originally there are 22 parts to the series of films from the trip Alexandre Promio made to Turkey(and Palestina), but the usual find of this is a collection under separate titles like "Palestine 1896", "Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem", "Jerusalem, Jaffa Gate, East Side", "Leaving Jerusalem by Railway" and "The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem" combining together some of these films into differnt clips. The scenes are filmed in Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Beirut, Damascus, and Constantinople.

The scene "Leaving Jerusalem by Railway" contains what is possibly the first depiction of camera movement in the history of film.

There is a colored and upscaled version on Youtube of "Palestine 1896", sadly made from very bad source material.