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- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsFrançois ClercBenoît DuvalAn impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.8/10
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsAnnabelle MooreAnnabelle (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.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsFélicien TreweyThe transformation of the same character in six different characters. A vision of the act of transformation.7/10
- DirectorLouis LumièreWorkers 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.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreClément MauriceA photographer has his camera all set up to take a man's picture, but just as the photographer is about to take the picture, the subject gets up to look at the camera more closely. The frustrated photographer soon becomes quite impatient.
- DirectorBirt AcresRobert W. PaulThe 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.6/10
- DirectorLouis LumièreSeveral little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.
- DirectorMax SkladanowskyStarsDelawareThe third sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreP.J.C. JanssenThe photographers who need to participate in the congress of Lyon get off a boat in Neuville-sur-Saône, dividing to the right and left.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA man tries to get on a horse , but he climbs to one side and falls from the other, until he manages to stay in balance.
- DirectorEmil SkladanowskyMax SkladanowskyStarsGreinerEugen SandowThe eighth sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.5/10
- DirectorLouis LumièreA butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already packaged for sale.
- DirectorMax SkladanowskyStarsSylvester SchäfferThe fourth sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a man nicknamed Paul Petras performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.
- DirectorMax SkladanowskyThe second sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, the Milton Brothers perform incredible features together on a horizontal bar.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAndrée LumièreAuguste LumièreA baby held by his father dips his little hands into a water jug and he can' t catch the goldfish .4/10
- DirectorLouis LumièreShort that depicts a moment at the busy Cordeliers' Square in Lyon. It is a busy thoroughfare, with pedestrians walking in front of the buildings and crossing the boulevard between horse-drawn vehicles. A double-decker bus passes in front.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA short black and white film which captures pedestrians and traffic on a busy street in Bellecour, Lyon.
- DirectorBirt AcresStarsEmpress Augusta VictoriaKaiser Wilhelm II
- DirectorLouis LumièreShort depicting a group of men holding a blanket. Another man then starts running and jumps over and on the blanket several times.
- DirectorMax SkladanowskyStarsGrunatoThe fifth sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, eight circus performers known as the Grunato Family perform their famous balancing act.
- DirectorAlfred ClarkStarsRobert ThomaeMrs. Robert L. ThomasThis short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- DirectorBirt AcresA stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and the race is over, police officers run onto the infield. The crowd moves around.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsMrs. Auguste LumiereJeanne-Joséphine LumièreThree men in a rowboat are leaving the harbor.
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreMrs. Auguste LumiereAndrée LumièreAs 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.