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- 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.
- Images show the skeleton of a horse running.
- 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 brief series photography by British Photographer Eadweard Muybridge featuring two boys playing leapfrog.
- A mule kicking with her hind legs, photographed by Eadweard Muybridge.
- This series of images by Muybridge pictures a cockatoo in flight.
- A film experiment featuring one of Eadweard Muybridge's nude female models getting into a bed.
- A guanaco in motion, in the action of galloping, as photographed by Eadweard Muybridge.
- A series of photographs shot by Eadweard Muybridge, depicting an adjutant walking.
- Eadweard Muybridge photographs a dog running from two different angles: one from the side, one from the back.
- A series of photographs of an antelope in motion, photographed by Eadweard Muybridge.
- 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.
- A photographic series depicting a baboon climbing up a pole.
- A female lion walking in a series of photographs shot by Eadweard Muybridge.
- One of W.K.L. Dickson's laboratory workers horses around for the camera.
- In an experiment that follows up on the results of 'Monkeyshines, No. 1', an Edison company worker again moves around in front of the motion picture camera.
- An Edison company worker makes large gestures in front of a Kinetoscope to test the new camera system.
- An athlete swings Indian clubs.
- "A little while ago there was a great convention of women's clubs of America. Mrs. Edison is interested in women's clubs and their work and she decided to entertain the Presidents of the various clubs at the Convention. Edison entered into the plan, and when 147 club women visited his workshop he showed them a working model of his new Kinetograph, for that is the name he has given to the most wonderful of all his wonderful inventions. "The surprised and pleased club women saw a small pine box standing on the floor. There were some wheels and belts near the box, and a workman who had them in charge. In the top of the box was a hole perhaps an inch in diameter. As they looked through this hole they saw the picture of a man. It was a most marvellous picture. It bowed and smiled and waved its hands and took off its hat with the most perfect naturalness and grace. Every motion was perfect. There was not a hitch or a jerk. No wonder Edison chuckled at the effect he produced with his Kinetograph."
- Two men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.
- Short film featuring two monkeys fighting.
- Lost film directed by William K.L. Dickson. Presented by Edison Manufacturing Company.
- Two men practicing fencing. Directed by William Dickson and filmed at Thomas Edison's Laboratories in New Jersey. It was an experimental film to test the new kinetoscope. Originally only a second long, this version has been looped and progressively slowed down from a normal starting speed to an 8x slow speed.
- A lost film, directed by William K.L. Dickson about two men wrestling.
- Two men shake hands for the Kinetograph.
- Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.
- 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.
- 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.
- The adventures of a female reporter in the 1890s.
- 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.
- James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
- The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.
- 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.
- "A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)
- Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.
- Three Sioux Indians perform a 'buffalo dance', while two others use drums to supply a rhythm. The three dancers move around in a circle as they perform the various actions that are part of the dance.
- A charming representation of the Mikado dance by three beautiful Japanese ladies in full costume. Very effective when colored. (from the Edison Catalog)
- Two gamecocks fight in the Edison Company film studio. This feature was remade later in the same year, with additional detail added.
- A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.
- The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.