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- This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- This is the lady whose graceful interpretations of the poetry of motion has made this dance so popular of recent years. - From 'The Phonoscope' (1899)
- "Musicians are seated, playing, while the graceful Dolorita dances. It is the Danse-du-Ventre, the famous Oriental muscle dance."
- "Depicts the patient fisherman, sitting on the end of a plank, waiting for a bite. Practical joker comes along and removes stone from other end of plank."
- Artist draws Thomas Edison.
- Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films made for Edison's kinetoscopes.
- Two men have a contest to see which one can be the first to eat a large slice of watermelon.
- 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.
- See Dr. Colton administering "laughing gas" to a patient and then pulling a tooth.
- "Formed by the junction of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and 35th Street. The picturesque low roofed Herald building is plainly shown; also the passing crowds and group of idlers."
- The camera shows a water ride at Bergen Beach at Coney Island. A raised track filled with water forms a chute, and a small boat full of park visitors slides down the chute. Alongside, empty boats are hauled back to the top of the ride.
- Shows the continuous stream of daily traffic on New York City's greatest business artery. The constantly changing crowds are a bewildering spectacle.
- A look at the waterfalls of the Passaic River in the northern New Jersey city of Passaic.
- A scene at "Death Curve."
- Showing the cutting of grass with a scythe and sickle.