A stationary camera looks across Burgundy’s river Sâone toward a small military encampment. Four horsemen enter the water in the foreground, each riding his horse as it swims across toward…

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

A street scene in Berlin near Hallesches Tor.

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 background to provide accompaniment.

Two dancers perform in succession facing a stationary camera. The first is in a diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended. She smiles, wearing butterfly wings on…

Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

Chickens are scared of a torpedo.