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- In this brief photographic sequence, Eadweard Muybridge himself poses nude and swings a miner's pick, in 18 different photographs.
- A frame sequence featuring a man walking around a corner.
- Eadweard Muybridge's motion photography film depicts a child bringing a bouquet of flowers to a topless woman who kisses his cheek.
- In the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.
- A very brief film of a man playing the accordion.
- A shot of people walking on The Leeds Bridge.
- Lost film from 1888, directed by William Friese-Greene.
- 18891m5.0 (486)ShortAlleged silent black-and-white short film shot at Apsley Gate, Hyde Park, London.
- A lost film not seen since it was made.
- A shot of Trafalgar Square.
- Lost film from 1890, directed by William Friese-Greene.
- 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.
- A policeman catches a pickpocket, who slips from his jacket but is caught by a sailor.
- A 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.
- Bookmaker struggles with police and is arrested.
- The stage cartoonist sketches Otto von Bismark.
- A short film drama made for Robert Paul's Kinetoscopes, featuring a boy and two drunken men fighting in a bar room.
- A woman gets undressed in her private sitting room. After losing her dress, she sits down and gets rid of her socks.
- Although the content of this film is primitive in the extreme - a shot of the traditional Oxford versus Cambridge University Boat Race, filmed on March 30 1895 - this film is of immense historical importance as being the first ever British film
- The first moving shot, created by a stationary camera on a gondola in Panorama du Grand Canal vu d'un Bateau, was filmed by Alexandre Promio for Louis Lumiere. Filming Locations: Venice, Veneto, Italy. Release Date: 1896 (France).
- The water beats relentlessly against the Hell's Mouth (Boca do Inferno), one of the main natural attractions of Lisbon's west coast, filmed from above almost in a vertical plunge onto the deep, rocky ground.
- A woman sitting on a bench is approached by a soldier. Momentarily, she refuses his advances, but in no time at all, they are kissing each other passionately.