An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.

A large wedding procession.

Friends and relatives playing a game of boules, arguing about who's team is winning.

Two babies are shown seated next to each other, in high chairs, apparently enjoying themselves. Suddenly one snatches a toy from the other and they...

Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by...

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a...

Three young women dance in Drury Lane, London.

Children dig for clams on the beach

Three women get in a horse-drawn carriage, as servants load luggage on the roof, before it pulls away.

Several competitors take part in a friendly sack race, with widely varying degrees of success.

Passengers leaving a ship in Lyon.

Vaudeville dancer Amy Muller performs a portion of her stage routine, which features dancing on her toes. She dances on one toe for part of the...

Mexicans lassoing a horse.

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

The first travelling shot.

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.

An African American family eats watermelons.

Two men have a contest to see which one can be the first to eat a large slice of watermelon.

street scenes of Vienna available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBCDQVM5t2w

A wedding party leave church in this Lumière brothers' short film.

An abridged version of the tale of Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, who wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where...

“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs her popular serpentine dance routine. She twirls around, and as she does so, she uses her long skirts to create a...

This scene of an African-American woman vigorously scrubbing a black baby was immensely popular with early audiences, and was featured on...

The first remake of The Sprinkler Sprinkled, filmed in a much more elaborate garden from a different angle.

“This view was taken upon Mr. McKinley's lawn at his home in Canton, Ohio. Mr. McKinley appears walking across the lawn in company with his...

One of a few versions of the "arrival of the train" narrative. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a...

Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.

A young woman takes off several layers of clothing.

Formed by the junction of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and 35th Street. The picturesque low roofed Herald building is plainly shown; also the passing...

'The White Eyed Kaffir' performs with top hat.

Georges Méliès lost film.

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."