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- DirectorP.J.C. JanssenSeries of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun in 1874.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeStarsGilbert DommSallie GardnerThe 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.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeStarsEadweard MuybridgeIn this brief photographic sequence, Eadweard Muybridge himself poses nude and swings a miner's pick, in 18 different photographs.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeIndividual photographs of the running of a buffalo shot in rapid succession.
- DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceA frame sequence featuring a man walking around a corner.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeA series a photographs, depicting a nude model coming down a staircase and towards the viewer.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeA nude model poses for a series of photographs, which depict her setting down a jug on the floor.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeA series of photographic images by photographer Eadweard Muybridge, showing a nude woman picking up a baseball and throwing it.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeThis series of photographs depict two nude models: a woman and a young child, as the woman picks up the child.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeA series of photographs picturing an elephant walking.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeThis series of images by Muybridge pictures a cockatoo in flight.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeTwo series of images by Eadweard Muybridge of an ostrich walking: one taken from the side, the other from the back.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeA locomotion study by Muybridge, made up of still photographs and featuring some chickens frightened at the explosion of several torpedoes.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeA female lion walking in a series of photographs shot by Eadweard Muybridge.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeA series of photographs of an antelope in motion, photographed by Eadweard Muybridge.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA short black and white film which captures pedestrians and traffic on a busy street in Bellecour, Lyon.
- DirectorLouis LumièreFour Men are involved in the shoeing of a horse.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsPierre BellingardAntoine FéraudMrs. Auguste LumiereA 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.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreClément MauriceA 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.
- DirectorWilliam HeiseSamoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.
- DirectorOtway LathamStarsCharles BarnettYoung Griffo
- DirectorBirt Acres
- DirectorWilliam HeiseThe participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.
- DirectorEmil SkladanowskyMax SkladanowskyStarsGreinerEugen SandowThe 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.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJohn L. RixfordAcrobatic feats.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsJohn L. RixfordHead balancing, showing one man balancing another on his head, and both disrobing while in that position.
- Waves breaking against a rock in the right foreground. A coastline is seen in the distance.
- StarsKaiser Wilhelm II
- StarsKaiser Wilhelm II
- DirectorLouis Lumière
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis LumièreStarsMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerMrs. Auguste LumiereA train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAntoine FéraudAntoine LumièreFélicien TreweyTwo men play cards, as a third watches and a waiter brings drinks. The third man pours drinks as the waiter laughs.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThis lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges MélièsLittle is known of this lost film; presumably it featured one or more threshing machines.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorgette MélièsLittle is known about this lost film, which presumably features young baby girls.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsVery little is known of this lost film; according to the title it featured a gypsy camp.
- DirectorGabriel VeyreIn three successive waves, civil guard riders quickly cross the plain.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsTsar Nicholas IITsarina Alexandra
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsTsar Nicholas II
- DirectorWilliam K.L. Dickson"A company of little darkies showing off their paces to the music of the banjo."
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreAuguste 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.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsVery little is known about this lost film, but according to the title it possibly featured large waves crashing against jagged, black rocks on a coast.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorAurélio da Paz dos ReisCampinos on horseback drive small herds of cattle through the vast area of the traditional fair, before prospective buyers.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis Lumière
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThis lost film presumably features the Place de l'Opéra in Paris, France.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThis lost film presumably shows the Place du Théâtre-Français.
- In the foreground, smoke billows. Four horse-drawn fire wagons approach and pass in front of a stationary camera. Two horses draw each wagon, and each wagon carries from two to eight firefighters. After the wagons pass, carts and pedestrians resume traffic on the street.
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorGeorges Méliès
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeA photographic series depicting a baboon climbing up a pole.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeA series of photographs depicting a male lion walking, shot by Eadweard Muybridge.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeA series of photographs shot by Eadweard Muybridge, depicting an adjutant walking.
- DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceA shot of people walking on The Leeds Bridge.
- DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceStarsAnnie HartleyAdolphe Le PrinceJoseph WhitleyIn the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.
- DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceStarsAdolphe Le PrinceA very brief film of a man playing the accordion.
- DirectorWilliam Friese-GreeneLost film from 1888, directed by William Friese-Greene.
- DirectorWilliam Friese-GreeneAlleged silent black-and-white short film shot at Apsley Gate, Hyde Park, London.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsGiuseppe Sacco AlbaneseOne of W.K.L. Dickson's laboratory workers horses around for the camera.
- DirectorWilliam Carr CroftsWordsworth DonisthorpeA shot of Trafalgar Square.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseTwo men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseShort film featuring two monkeys fighting.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonAn athlete swings Indian clubs.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsKing Edward VIIThis short documentary is a mini-biography of Edward VII, then Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the throne of England. Because his mother, Queen Victoria, reigned for such an unusually long period, he would not receive the crown until her death.