Filmovi 1874-...

Series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun in 1874.

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.

In the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.

A horse with rider jumping over an obstacle

A shot of people walking on The Leeds Bridge.

A very brief film of a man playing the accordion.

Medium close-up of a man saying "Je vous aime".

An athlete swings Indian clubs.

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.

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.

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.

A cat falls down and lands on its feet.

"A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)

A group of Sioux Indians from Buffalo Bill's Wild West exhibition demonstrates a dance called a "ghost dance".

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.

Pre-cinematograph colour animation of a woman and man at the beach.

Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dance routines. She uses her dance steps and her long, flowing skirts to create a variety of visual patterns.

The photographers who need to participate in the congress of Lyon get off a boat in Neuville-sur-Saône, dividing to the right and left.

This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

As part of a maiden public film screening at the Salon Indien, on December 28, in Paris, Auguste Lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon.

The sea is quite rough, and at Dover a series of heavy waves pounds against a pier and along the adjacent shoreline. The scene then shifts to a different view of flowing water, and shows a heavy current from a point along a riverbank.

An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.

Two men play cards, as a third watches and a waiter brings drinks. The third man pours drinks as the waiter laughs.