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- A train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- In the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.
- Bluetooth is a 'Very Short Film' of a Small Story with Social Message.
- 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.
- Series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun in 1874.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The execution of Topsy, a female elephant, in a publicity stunt advertising the opening of Luna Park on Coney Island. Topsy was originally owned by Forepaugh Circus where she killed a drunken spectator who burned the tip of her trunk with a cigar. She was sold to Sea Lion Park in 1902 which was then sold to new owners who turned it into Luna Park. After they decided they could no longer handle her, the owners of Luna Park announced they would hang Topsy, leading to an outcry by the ASPCA. The owners then decided they would electrocute the elephant, with a backup plan of feeding her cyanide-laced carrots and strangling her with a cable.
- The home movie footage shot by Abraham Zapruder that caught the assassination of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
- A man in front of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo explains what he thinks about them.
- Individual photographs of the running of a buffalo shot in rapid succession.
- A frame sequence featuring a man walking around a corner.
- One of W.K.L. Dickson's laboratory workers horses around for the camera.
- 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.
- A short film of what appears to be the first captured footage of Bigfoot.
- Alfred Hitchcock makes an experiment in this short film where he uses the sound device for the first time in a motion picture of his own. This is a sound test where the master of suspense and actress Anny Ondra have some humored dialogues, just checking the sound quality designed for Hitchcock's first talkie picture, the classic Blackmail (1929).
- An athlete swings Indian clubs.
- Early Kinora demonstration film.
- In this brief photographic sequence, Eadweard Muybridge himself poses nude and swings a miner's pick, in 18 different photographs.
- An old-fashioned car ('voiture' in french) departs on a journey. Several people wave their good-byes to the occupants of the vehicle.
- 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.
- "Company F, 1st Ohio Volunteers, initiating a new man. Nineteen times he bounces in the blanket, and each toss is funnier than the last one."
- Two men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.
- A baby held by his father dips his little hands into a water jug and he can' t catch the goldfish .
- Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.
- 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.
- A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.
- Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yikilisi is one of the first examples of the Turkish Cinema and it centers upon the destruction of the Russian Memorial in Yesilkoy/Istanbul. There is an ongoing debate about whether this documentary was ever filmed or not since the original copies are lost and about whether it was the first Turkish movie or not.
- People start a snowball fight on a street in Lyons, France.
- A most perfect picture of the Pan-American Exposition buildings, including the Electric Tower and Temple of Music, as they appear at night.
- A very brief film of a man playing the accordion.
- 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.
- Customer gets a lightning-fast shave.
- "This magnificent pageant is every year the mecca of tourists from all over the world. Our picture shows the following floats in the parade of 1899: No. 1, Corn; No. 2, Cherries; No. 3, Coffee; No. 4, Tea."
- A series a photographs, depicting a nude model coming down a staircase and towards the viewer.
- 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.
- 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 series of images by Eadweard Muybridge of an ostrich walking: one taken from the side, the other from the back.
- Coco Alice does some beginner level nude yoga.
- Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.
- A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about 20 persons in the party, walk past; the dignitaries are in front, attended by men with horns and drums. Coming in the other direction are local Swiss, who pay little attention, and a group of native-garbed Africans. The dozen or so well-dressed denizens of Geneva who are sitting on the steps of the Divan take it all in.
- Telescopic chronophotography of the 1882 transit of Venus as observed from Lick Observatory.
- 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 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.
- 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.