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- This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- One of W.K.L. Dickson's laboratory workers horses around for the camera.
- Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.
- 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.
- An athlete swings Indian clubs.
- Two men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.
- 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.
- Two men shake hands for the Kinetograph.
- A fine exhibition of horsemanship by Lee Martin, a genuine cowboy. This particular broncho is an unusually wicked one. (from Edison Films)
- Experimental film to test the new kinetoscope which depicts two men practicing fencing.
- "Firemen in working uniform, rubber coats, helmets, and boots. Thrilling rescue from burning building. Smoke effects are fine." - from the Edison Catalog
- A scene from Charles Hoyt's 'A Milk White Flag': A brass band marches out, led by bandmaster Steele Ayers. When Ayers reaches his position, he turns around and directs the musicians as they take up their own positions.
- A gymnast assumes a number of positions while holding a wand in both hands.
- An eccentric dance from "Little Christopher Columbus," by John Wilson, the famous "Tramp," and Bertha Waring.
- The very first American film shown to public audiences and the press. It depicts William K.L. Dickson taking off his hat and greeting the audience.
- Showing 34 Persons in Costume. The largest number ever shown as one subject in the Kinetoscope.
- 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.
- An Edison company worker makes large gestures in front of a Kinetoscope to test the new camera system.
- Lost film that depicts the burning of Joan of Arc. Only fragments of it still exist in the Centre Jeanne d'Arc in Orléans and in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
- A lively, eccentric dance by Frank Lawton, Etta Williamson and Rosa France of Charles Hale Hoyt's "Milk White Flag". Atttractive costumes.
- Lively political debate, representing [Grover] Cleveland and [Benjamin] Harrison.
- Head balancing, showing one man balancing another on his head, and both disrobing while in that position.
- America's greatest "Buck" dancer.
- An athlete does a backwards somersault.
- Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.
- A lost film, directed by William K.L. Dickson about two men wrestling.
- Acrobatic feats.
- Lost film directed by William K.L. Dickson. Presented by Edison Manufacturing Company.
- Short, experimental film depicting James C. Duncan smoking a pipe.
- One of the series gives successive pictures of an athlete in an unsuccessful attempt to turn a somersault. Everybody who has seen a boy perform this act knows the brief space of time it takes him to throw himself upon his hands, with his feet in the air and how quickly he recovers himself if he fails to go over. Yet it will be seen that the kinetograph photographed the athlete forty-four times between the beginning and the end of the act, aside from the numerous pictures taken when he was bending down to the ground and coming back to an erect position.
- Short film featuring two monkeys fighting.