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- Performing on what looks like a small wooden stage, wearing a dress with a hoop skirt and white high-heeled pumps, Carmencita does a dance with kicks and twirls, a smile always on her face.
- The adventures of a female reporter in the 1890s.
- The earliest extant sound film, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost. It depicts William K.L. Dickson standing in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder.
- Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest a butterfly. As she dances, she uses her long, flowing skirts to create visual patterns.
- A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.
- Annabelle Moore performs her Sun Dance.
- "A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)
- A charming representation of the Mikado dance by three beautiful Japanese ladies in full costume. Very effective when colored. (from the Edison Catalog)
- Annie Oakley, the 'Little Miss Sure Shot' of the 'Wild West' gives an exhibition of rifle shooting at glass balls and clay pigeons in a film from the Edison Catalog.
- James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
- Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.
- Three Sioux Indians perform a 'buffalo dance', while two others use drums to supply a rhythm. The three dancers move around in a circle as they perform the various actions that are part of the dance.
- "The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beautiful smoke effects."
- A group of Sioux Indians from Buffalo Bill's Wild West exhibition demonstrates a dance called a "ghost dance".
- A gymnast assumes a number of positions while holding a wand in both hands.
- Short depicting the box-fight between Mike Leonard and Jack Cushing fight.
- Two gamecocks fight in the Edison Company film studio. This feature was remade later in the same year, with additional detail added.
- The Glenroy Brothers perform a portion of their vaudeville act, "The Comic View of Boxing: The Tramp & the Athlete".
- "King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home." (from Edison Films)
- Lively political debate, representing [Grover] Cleveland and [Benjamin] Harrison.
- "Two men engaged in wrestling are shown in one of the series of illustrations that accompany the kinetoscope. They were photographed in the 'Black Maria' by the kinetograph and the kinetoscope portrays the whole bout from beginning to end with every move that the wrestlers made. As the struggle carried them about over considerable space they were placed at quite a distance from the camera...By Petit and Kessler."
- A fine exhibition of horsemanship by Lee Martin, a genuine cowboy. This particular broncho is an unusually wicked one. (from Edison Films)
- "'Dick the Rat' and his rat-terrier. The dog is turned loose among a lot of big, live rats, and kills them in lightning order."