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- This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- One of W.K.L. Dickson's laboratory workers horses around for the camera.
- Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.
- An athlete swings Indian clubs.
- Two men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.
- 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.
- In an experiment that follows up on the results of 'Monkeyshines, No. 1', an Edison company worker again moves around in front of the motion picture camera.
- The very first American film shown to public audiences and the press. It depicts William K.L. Dickson taking off his hat and greeting the audience.
- Lost film directed by William K.L. Dickson. Presented by Edison Manufacturing Company.
- Two men shake hands for the Kinetograph.
- Short, experimental film depicting James C. Duncan smoking a pipe.
- Experimental film to test the new kinetoscope which depicts two men practicing fencing.
- A fine exhibition of horsemanship by Lee Martin, a genuine cowboy. This particular broncho is an unusually wicked one. (from Edison Films)
- Short that shows a blacksmith shop in which two men are shoeing a horse and heating iron at the forge.
- A gymnast assumes a number of positions while holding a wand in both hands.
- One of the series gives successive pictures of an athlete in an unsuccessful attempt to turn a somersault. Everybody who has seen a boy perform this act knows the brief space of time it takes him to throw himself upon his hands, with his feet in the air and how quickly he recovers himself if he fails to go over. Yet it will be seen that the kinetograph photographed the athlete forty-four times between the beginning and the end of the act, aside from the numerous pictures taken when he was bending down to the ground and coming back to an erect position.
- An Edison company worker makes large gestures in front of a Kinetoscope to test the new camera system.
- Lost film that depicts the burning of Joan of Arc. Only fragments of it still exist in the Centre Jeanne d'Arc in Orléans and in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
- "Firemen in working uniform, rubber coats, helmets, and boots. Thrilling rescue from burning building. Smoke effects are fine." - from the Edison Catalog
- A lost film, directed by William K.L. Dickson about two men wrestling.
- Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.