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This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

This is the lady whose graceful interpretations of the poetry of motion has made this dance so popular of recent years. - From 'The Phonoscope' (1899)

Artist draws Thomas Edison.

Two men have a contest to see which one can be the first to eat a large slice of watermelon.

Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films made for Edison's kinetoscopes.

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.

Showing the ill-fated steamer, which, while loaded with passengers, was recently sunk in New York Harbor in collision with the ferry boat Oregon.

Artist draws pictures of William McKinley and President Grover Cleveland.

See Dr. Colton administering "laughing gas" to a patient and then pulling a tooth.

The camera shows a water ride at Bergen Beach at Coney Island. A raised track filled with water forms a chute, and a small boat full of park visitors slides down the chute. Alongside, empty boats are hauled back to the top of the ride.