A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the...

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over...

A father, a mother and a baby are sitting at a table, on a patio outside. Dad is feeding baby his lunch, while mum is serving tea.

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....

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...

Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to jump...

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a...

In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching...

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 man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with his bare hands.

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.

A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

Pedestrian and various vehicles traffic on Place Bellecour, in Lyon.

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...

In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a...

An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.

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...

A policeman catches a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing a sailor.

A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

Directed by Birt Acres.

Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator...

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost...

By Fiji Islanders. A peculiar dance by genuine savages, dressed or rather undressed, in their native garb. The revel takes its name from the paddles...

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

Anonymous performer for Edison Manufacturing Co.

A short of Mr. Grundy dancing. He's a Black man in a jockey outfit and there's someone in a horse costume dancing next to him.

Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.

The Nicholas Sisters perform a "split dance" from a Koster & Bial’s Music Hall stage production.

A native dance peculiar to India. Very odd and interesting. Strange costumes and stranger motions.

The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.

Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.

A lost film of two boxers.