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- The clip shows a jockey, Gilbert Domm, riding a horse, Sallie Gardner. The clip is not filmed; instead, it consists of 24 individual photographs shot in rapid succession, making a moving picture when using a zoopraxiscope.
- A brief series photography by British Photographer Eadweard Muybridge featuring two boys playing leapfrog.
- Two men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.
- An athlete swings Indian clubs.
- Shot of two people fencing.
- Experimental film to test the new kinetoscope which depicts two men practicing fencing.
- Lost film directed by William K.L. Dickson. Presented by Edison Manufacturing Company.
- A lost film, directed by William K.L. Dickson about two men wrestling.
- James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
- "A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)
- In the background, five fans lean on the ropes looking into the ring. The referee is to the left; like the fans, he hardly moves as two fighters swing roundhouse blows at each other. Mike Leonard, in white trunks, is the aggressor; in black, Jack Cushing stands near the edge of the ring, warily pawing the air as Leonard comes at him. A couple of punches land, but the fighters maintain their upright postures.
- The Glenroy Brothers perform a portion of their vaudeville act, "The Comic View of Boxing: The Tramp & the Athlete", which depicts a boxer with a classic style trying to contend with an opponent who uses a very unorthodox approach.
- A gymnast assumes a number of positions while holding a wand in both hands.
- A referee and five fans (including a waiter in his apron) look on as two young men box. The dark-haired, slightly taller boxer throws a right and the light-haired smaller one goes down; but he's up before the referee starts counting. After the knockdown, the boxers mostly hit each other's gloves. The fans, at least one of whom is sitting inside the ring, show no animation. They're all men, dressed in a range of late 19th-century garb.
- An athlete does a backwards somersault.
- "Two men engaged in wrestling are shown in one of the series of illustrations that accompany the kinetoscope. They were photographed in the 'Black Maria' by the kinetograph and the kinetoscope portrays the whole bout from beginning to end with every move that the wrestlers made. As the struggle carried them about over considerable space they were placed at quite a distance from the camera...By Petit and Kessler."
- 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.
- Billy Edwards and a challenger named Warwick fight an exhibition boxing match.
- Strong-man Eugene (Eugen) Sandow poses in a long shot on a bare stage against a black background, wearing only tight trunks and laced sandals. He begins with his arms folded against his chest, looking off screen left, then strikes a variety of poses that accentuate his muscular development. These positions include flexing his right arm with the fist to his head and face to shoulder; turning his back to the camera and flexing his upper arms and shoulder muscles; and, with his back still to the camera, stretching out and up with one arm at a time. Sandow then turns back to face the camera and performs a standing back flip. He closes in the same pose with which he opened From Biograph photo catalog: 24 feet. Still another picture of the great athlete displaying his muscles, and turning a somersault without touching hands to the floor.
- 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
- Onlookers watch a donkey race.
- The Derby is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul's Kinetoscopes, featuring the end of the 29 May 1895 Epsom Derby viewed from a raised position close to the finishing line with the main stand in the distance. A stationary camera looks diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield showing the horses as they pass. Once the horses have passed the camera it is clear that the race has come to an end and there is a close finish between three horses. Once the race is over police officers run onto the field. The camera also displays various members of the audience moving around.
- Stage boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope, with a round, interval, and knockout.
- "Taken at the Country Club, Buffalo, N.Y. The horses are prize winners at the New York Horse Show. The hurdles are high and the jumping is fine."
- A documentary about sports.
- "Practice game between the first and second elevens on the college athletic field."
- Two roosters fight in front of three men squatting around the fighting area.
- This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race.
- Lumière brothers present in "Départ de cyclistes" ("Departure of Cyclists") a black and white short piece following the starting point of a highly disputed bicycle race with several cycle runners crossing over a famous French avenue. While the countless bicycles and runners come and go from our view, there's also time to notice the observers on each side of the avenue watching the event with a great sense of curiosity.
- Documentary film depicting the 1897 boxing match between James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons in Carson City, Nevada on St. Patrick's Day. Originally running for more than 100 minutes, it is the world's first feature film.
- This black and white short film is the first known film about football match.
- "An exciting boxing bout between a man and a woman. An act which had much success on the vaudeville stage."
- "An exciting glove contest, with several knock-downs, between two well-known light weights."