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- Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
- An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
- As part of a maiden public film screening at the Salon Indien, on December 28, in Paris, Auguste Lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon.
- This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dance routines. She uses her dance steps and her long, flowing skirts to create a variety of visual patterns.
- The photographers who need to participate in the congress of Lyon get off a boat in Neuville-sur-Saône, dividing to the right and left.
- Three men in a rowboat are leaving the harbor.
- Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.
- The transformation of the same character in six different characters. A vision of the act of transformation.
- A stationary camera looks across the boulevard at a diagonal toward one corner of Lyon's Cordeliers' Square. It's a long shot, with a great deal of depth of focus. We can see the sky and fronts of four buildings, each four or five stories tall. It's a busy thoroughfare, with pedestrians walking in front of the buildings and crossing the boulevard between horse-drawn vehicles. A double-decker bus passes in front of us, pulled by two horses. Various tradesmen pass on wagons. One van passes.
- Two blacksmiths work while the vapors rise in the air. Later, another man arrives and offers a drink.
- A baby held by his father dips his little hands into a water jug and he can' t catch the goldfish .
- A man tries to get on a horse , but he climbs to one side and falls from the other, until he manages to stay in balance.
- Outdoors, with a nondescript building in the background, four men stand, each holding the corner of a blanket stretched parallel to the ground. They wear the clothes of laborers. By the back corner on our left stands a uniformed man who seems in charge. A sixth man stands back from the blanket about six paces; he runs forward and takes a leap but stops at the edge of the blanket and is upbraided by the uniformed gent. The same thing happens a second time, but the next three times, he completes a flip, landing on his back in the middle of the blanket, and the four then boost him out toward the camera. The final time seems like it will be his last for awhile.
- A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already packaged for sale.
- The sea is quite rough, and at Dover a series of heavy waves pounds against a pier and along the adjacent shoreline. The scene then shifts to a different view of flowing water, and shows a heavy current from a point along a riverbank.
- The third sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.
- A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him. Just as the photographer is about to take the picture, the subject gets up to look at the camera more closely. The frustrated photographer soon becomes quite impatient.
- Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's circus, performs an Egyptian dance in the Edison Company's studio. As she dances, some musicians perform in the background to provide accompaniment.
- A medium closeup of a large cat, washing itself. A boy brings him/her a plate of milk.
- No.18 in the Lumière catalogue really stands out. Most of their films were long shots of people in everyday situations, usually in a diagonal composition. So these poor fish did not have much moving space neither in their housing nor in the framing of the picture. The resulting film is all the more remarkable in its beautiful simplicity and could be regarded as a precursor to the aquarium videos that were quite popular about a 100 years later. Aquaria have been around since the Roman Empire where they kept fish in marble tanks. From around the year 50 they were able to improve the view of their fish by replacing one marble plate with glass. Fish bowls were developed much later and are nowadays not considered as suitable for most fish.
- A short black and white film which captures pedestrians and traffic on a busy street in Bellecour, Lyon.
- The eighth sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.
- The seventh sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a young female dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
- The first cinema screening, consisting of the shorts "Italienischer Bauerntanz (1895)", "Komisches Reck (1895)", "Das boxende Känguruh (1895)", "Der Jongleur (1895)", "Akrobatisches Potpourri (1895)", "Kamarinskaja (1895)", "Die Serpentintänzerin (1895)", "Ringkämpfer (1895)" and "Apotheose (1895)".
- Four Men are involved in the shoeing of a horse.
- The fifth sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, eight circus performers known as the Grunato Family perform their famous balancing act.
- A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and the race is over, police officers run onto the infield. The crowd moves around.
- Billy Edwards and a challenger named Warwick fight an exhibition boxing match.
- The first sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
- A man and a woman play backgammon. A waiter arrives bringing wine and one man pours drinks. The woman wins and her opponent angrily shuts the board.
- The second sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, the Milton Brothers perform incredible features together on a horizontal bar.
- The fourth sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a man nicknamed Paul Petras performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.
- The sixth sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
- The ninth and final sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, the Skladanowsky Brothers themselves enter the stage, bow down and thank the audience for watching their compilation.
- A policeman catches a pickpocket, who slips from his jacket but is caught by a sailor.
- Bookmaker struggles with police and is arrested.
- A short film drama made for Robert Paul's Kinetoscopes, featuring a boy and two drunken men fighting in a bar room.
- Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.
- 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.