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- Medium close-up of a man saying "Je vous aime".
- A cat falls down and lands on its feet.
- 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.
- 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.
- A baby held by his father dips his little hands into a water jug and he can' t catch the goldfish .
- 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.
- 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.
- Early Kinora demonstration film.
- A short black and white film which captures pedestrians and traffic on a busy street in Bellecour, Lyon.
- A performer does several balancing exercises involving a ball and chopsticks.
- A train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- A short black and white film in which children are seen playing a game of marbles.
- A short black and white film which documents the workday of shipbuilders.
- A man, in the imitation of a serpentine dance, takes a long piece of cloth and twirls it around him.
- A train arrives at the Perrache station.
- A short scene showing a small man-made pond and a number of boys playing with their boats.
- A short black and white film documenting a group of gentleman engaged in lawn bowling.
- A ship is launched into the water.
- An old-fashioned car ('voiture' in french) departs on a journey. Several people wave their good-byes to the occupants of the vehicle.
- A short black and white film which captures the activities during a school's recreational break.
- A steamer sails into Boulogne-sur-Mer harbor.
- "This is one of the most successful cavalry charges ever shown in a moving picture. The entire regiment appears at first in the distance. The galloping horses speedily bring them into close view, and they dash by the camera at a furious pace, the sun gleaming on their sabres and their steel helmets and breast-plates. Several horses fall in the furious onslaught."
- The passing crowds on this great boulevard are always interesting to watch. Bicyclists, pedestrians, carriages and cabs whirl by in kaleidoscopic profusion. A steam train enters in the distance, marking its route with light puffs of steam. An interesting feature of the picture is the pool of water on the crossing in the foreground which causes temporary embarrassment to some of the ladies who are obliged to take long strides to step over same.
- In 1896, cinema pioneer Louis Lumière decided to register a man doing impressive tricks on his bicycle, closely observed by a curious crowd. Riding it backwards or standing on the top of the bike, sometimes in a clumsy way, other times like a master of this craft, the man seems to be enjoying himself while leaving the passers by truly wanting to know how he manages to perform all those tricks.
- A short black and white film which records a street race.
- A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.
- A black and white short from the Lumière brothers documenting Czar Nicholas II of Russia visiting France.
- Firefighters at the scene lay out hoses and prepare to fight a blaze.
- A short black and white film which captures the arrival of a train at the Perrache station.
- The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.
- With the help of a magic cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.
- In this fantastic scene, a man who is eager to retire has a difficult time finding peace, as his nocturnal illusions come to life out of thin air.
- In what is considered to be the first remake in the history of cinema, the grand French director, Georges Méliès, directs his very first short film, influenced by the Lumière Brothers' original story in "Partie d'écarté (1896)".
- A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.
- Soldiers use a blanket to toss one of their own up into the air.
- The view represents boats sailing on the Marne at Joinville (near Paris).
- The view depicts the exit of a factory in Paris, the workers (men and women) come out in crowds, children dragging small cars.
- The view represents the arrival of a train at Bel Air station (Paris). We witness the arrival of the train, then the travelers get off and on, the train leaves.
- Early short of a snowball fight in the streets of Lyon, France
- The scene is taken from the Champs-Elysées. The Tzar and Tzarina are accompanied by Félix Faure and magnificent escorts.