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- Series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun in 1874.
- The clip shows a jockey, Gilbert Domm, riding a horse, Sallie Gardner. The clip is not filmed; instead, it consists of 24 individual photographs shot in rapid succession, making a moving picture when using a zoopraxiscope.
- In this brief photographic sequence, Eadweard Muybridge himself poses nude and swings a miner's pick, in 18 different photographs.
- Two women shake hands and kiss. The first ever moving image of a kiss was not filmed, but consists of individual photographs shot by Eadweard Muybridge in rapid succession, making a moving picture when using Muybridge's zoopraxiscope.
- Telescopic chronophotography of the 1882 transit of Venus as observed from Lick Observatory.
- Individual photographs of the running of a buffalo shot in rapid succession.
- A frame sequence featuring a man walking around a corner.
- A female lion walking in a series of photographs shot by Eadweard Muybridge.
- A series of photographs shot by Eadweard Muybridge, depicting an adjutant walking.
- A series of photographs of an antelope in motion, photographed by Eadweard Muybridge.
- A series a photographs, depicting a nude model coming down a staircase and towards the viewer.
- A series of photographs picturing an elephant walking.
- A series of photographs depicting a male lion walking, shot by Eadweard Muybridge.
- Two series of images by Eadweard Muybridge of an ostrich walking: one taken from the side, the other from the back.
- This series of images by Muybridge pictures a cockatoo in flight.
- This series of photographs depict two nude models: a woman and a young child, as the woman picks up the child.
- A locomotion study by Muybridge, made up of still photographs and featuring some chickens frightened at the explosion of several torpedoes.
- A nude model poses for a series of photographs, which depict her setting down a jug on the floor.
- A series of photographic images by photographer Eadweard Muybridge, showing a nude woman picking up a baseball and throwing it.
- A photographic series depicting a baboon climbing up a pole.
- In the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.
- A very brief film of a man playing the accordion.
- A shot of people walking on The Leeds Bridge.
- Lost film from 1888, directed by William Friese-Greene.
- Alleged silent black-and-white short film shot at Apsley Gate, Hyde Park, London.
- One of W.K.L. Dickson's laboratory workers horses around for the camera.
- A shot of Trafalgar Square.
- An athlete swings Indian clubs.
- Two men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.
- Short film featuring two monkeys fighting.
- Customer gets a lightning-fast shave.
- Rabbits jump, play and interact with each other in multiple different sequences.
- Georges Demenÿ writes his last name on a sheet.
- One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the other heating iron at the forge. One would be seen to drive the nail into the shoe of the horse's hoof, to change his position and every movement needed in the work was clearly shown as if the object was in real (life). In fact, the whole routine of the two men's labour and their movements for the day was presented to the view of the observer.
- A short experimental film of a spear thrower.
- A short experimental film of a horse rider.
- The film shows the movement of a man's hand.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.
- Two gamecocks fight in the Edison Company film studio. This feature was remade later in the same year, with additional detail added.
- In the background, five fans lean on the ropes looking into the ring. The referee is to the left; like the fans, he hardly moves as two fighters swing roundhouse blows at each other. Mike Leonard, in white trunks, is the aggressor; in black, Jack Cushing stands near the edge of the ring, warily pawing the air as Leonard comes at him. A couple of punches land, but the fighters maintain their upright postures.