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- Pre-cinematography color animation of Abstract expressionism.
- Between 1877 and 1879, Émile Reynaud realized three series of 10 animations for his Praxinoscope. La danse sur la corde is animation number 7 of the first series.
- Between 1877 and 1879, Émile Reynaud realized three series of 10 animations for his Praxinoscope. La jeu de corde is animation number 9 of the first series.
- Between 1877 and 1879, Émile Reynaud realized three series of 10 animations for his Praxinoscope. "Zimm. Boum. Boum!" is animation number 10 of the first series.
- Between 1877 and 1879, Émile Reynaud realized three series of 10 animations for his Praxinoscope. "Les Chiens Savants" is animation number 8 of the first series.
- Pre-cinematograph colour animation of the monkey playing his violin
- One night, Arlequin come to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.
- Lost short film consisting of 300 painted images. It shows a clown entering a circus ring and greeting the audience before he starts to perform tricks with three dogs. The dogs jump through hoops, walk on a ball and jump over a wand.
- Lost 1892 French short animated film directed by Émile Reynaud about a wanderer who orders a good beer ("Un bon bock") and meets a traveler who also orders a beer. They enter an argument because a kitchen boy steals their beers.
- A charming representation of the Mikado dance by three beautiful Japanese ladies in full costume. Very effective when colored. (from the Edison Catalog)
- Pre-cinematograph colour animation of a woman and man at the beach.
- 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.
- Two smiling blonde women in short skirts dance under a big umbrella.
- Two blacksmiths work while the vapors rise in the air. Later, another man arrives and offers a drink.
- Two men play cards, as a third watches and a waiter brings drinks. The third man pours drinks as the waiter laughs.
- As an elegant maestro of mirage and delusion drapes his beautiful female assistant with a gauzy textile, much to our amazement, the lady vanishes into thin air.
- With the help of a magic cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.
- "A special colored film of the Stars and Stripes fluttering in the breeze."
- A card game over drinks with three men, including Antoine Lumiere and Felicien Trewey.
- "As performed by Annabelle, the famous premier danseuse. A charmingly graceful representation of the light and airy flight of a butterfly. Beautiful when colored."
- Angelic and demonic serpentine dances from dawn of cinema by the Lumière Brothers film, called the Serpentine Dance. The dancer is Loie Fuller; the pioneer modern dancer. Recorded in 1896 in Paris, and hand-colored frame by frame.
- A man dressed in red is ushered into an antechamber in a Castle and offered a seat. When he tried to sit down the chair moves to the other side of the room causing the man to fall on the floor. Standing up he strides to the chair but on trying to lift it a Spector materializes in the chair, arises and challenges the man. The man pulls out his sword and lunges at the Spector but it changes into a skeleton. Seeing the change the man tried to grab the skeleton but it changes into an armor clad guard. The man attempts to move the guard but a devil appears and waves the man away. The man recoils from the devil and tries to leave but the Spector reappears. Both it and the devil frighten the man from the antechamber.
- Charlotte Corday murders Marat while he is bathing.
- "This picture shows our national flag waving in the breeze. Coloring adds greatly to the effectiveness of this film."
- "The stars-and-stripes and the flag of Cuba Libre flutter in the breeze, one after the other. Very dramatic. Appeals to the popular sentiment. Excellent when colored."
- An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
- A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out?
- Satan appears in a convent and takes the guise of a priest. Before long he is causing all manner of perturbation and despair.
- A devil conjures up a dancing woman from a mystical flame.
- The only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play performing a scene from his most famous role. It is accompanied by a sound-on-cylinder recording of Coquelin's voice reciting one of Cyrano's speeches.
- Four men each hold a large slice of watermelon, and have a race to see who can finish eating first. All four move quickly, but one man seems to be pulling ahead of the others. Soon the contestants begin to hinder one another's efforts.
- A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
- Preserved by Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, PIERRETTE'S ESCAPADES retains the original hand-tinting from the film's release in 1900. Director Alice Guy adapts a brief sequence from the ballet of Arlequin and Pierrette (essentially condensing much of the narrative in under two minutes) to provide some context for a little era-appropriate dancing.
- Hand-tinted film of a couple dance on a stage.
- A woman embodies the movement of a butterfly.
- A wild spectacle of Loïe Fuller's serpentine dance in a lion's cage.
- A man and a woman dance an ethnic dance in costume. Their costume changes and so does their dance, in the first of a series of transformations.
- As danced by Loie Fuller. A very artistic and interesting film. The dance is executed with the famous ten-yard skirts invented for the wonderful fire dance which had such a phenomenal run at Koster and Bial's, New York City. This is the most suitable film for coloring, and when colored it produces all the wonderful effects that are seen in the original fire dance.
- Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some treasure beneath the waves.