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- A train arrives at La Ciotat station.Votes12,793
- In the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.Votes6,755
- The home movie footage shot by Abraham Zapruder that caught the assassination of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.Votes2,325
- Workers 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.Votes7,502
- 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.Votes3,622
- Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.Votes2,744
- Series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun in 1874.Votes2,046
- James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.Votes852
- An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.Votes5,799
- A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.Votes2,181
- The execution of Topsy, a female elephant, in a publicity stunt advertising the opening of Luna Park on Coney Island. Topsy was originally owned by Forepaugh Circus where she killed a drunken spectator who burned the tip of her trunk with a cigar. She was sold to Sea Lion Park in 1902 which was then sold to new owners who turned it into Luna Park. After they decided they could no longer handle her, the owners of Luna Park announced they would hang Topsy, leading to an outcry by the ASPCA. The owners then decided they would electrocute the elephant, with a backup plan of feeding her cyanide-laced carrots and strangling her with a cable.Votes1,918
- The photographers who need to participate in the congress of Lyon get off a boat in Neuville-sur-Saône, dividing to the right and left.Votes1,945
- Two men play cards, as a third watches and a waiter brings drinks. The third man pours drinks as the waiter laughs.Votes1,592
- The first film directed by a female director, "The Cabbage Fairy" presents a brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Gently moving through the cabbages and using of lovely gestures, she takes one baby out of there, then makes more magic and delivers two more.Votes1,374
- This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.Votes2,529
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- Individual photographs of the running of a buffalo shot in rapid succession.Votes1,185
- Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.Votes385
- Eadweard Muybridge photographs a capybara in motion.Votes491
- 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.Votes2,034
- As 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.Votes3,492
- Much to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.Votes3,979
- Three men in a rowboat are leaving the harbor.Votes1,563
- In a medium close-up shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at hair's breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.Votes3,660
- One of W.K.L. Dickson's laboratory workers horses around for the camera.Votes1,633
- A frame sequence featuring a man walking around a corner.Votes1,547
- Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.Votes1,493
- The first film to ever show a nudity scene on screen is a simple presentation of a servant preparing a bath for another woman.Votes1,482
- A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.Votes622
- Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.Votes342
- Eadweard Muybridge's motion photography film depicts a child bringing a bouquet of flowers to a topless woman who kisses his cheek.Votes413
- In this fantastic scene, a man who is eager to retire has a difficult time finding peace, as his nocturnal illusions come to life out of thin air.Votes1,961
- An athlete swings Indian clubs.Votes1,806
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- Two blacksmiths work while the vapors rise in the air. Later, another man arrives and offers a drink.Votes1,135
- 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.Votes886
- A baby held by his father dips his little hands into a water jug and he can' t catch the goldfish .Votes1,126
- Performing on what looks like a small wooden stage, wearing a dress with a hoop skirt and white high-heeled pumps, Carmencita does a dance with kicks and twirls, a smile always on her face.Votes2,036
- One toddler and about ten children, not yet adolescents, use a shovel, rakes, and nets to scour an eddy by the sea as fully-dressed women (hats and all) and a few men look on and give advice. The boys are in short pants; the girls have pulled up their skirts and petticoats and stuck in their sashes. Not a clam is to be seen, although one lass checks her net a couple of times. The children's outfits (trim hats on each child and lace on each girl) suggest wealth and high society.Votes440
- Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.Votes2,750
- 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.Votes374
- Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears. Holmes initially attempts to ignore the event by lighting a cigar, but upon the thief's reappearance, Holmes tries to reclaim the sack of stolen goods, drawing a pistol from his dressing gown pocket and firing it at the intruder, who disappears. After Holmes recovers his property, the bag vanishes from his hand into that of the thief, who promptly disappears through a window. At this point the movie ends abruptly with Holmes looking "baffled".Votes772
- A stationary camera looks across the boulevard at a diagonal toward one corner of Lyon's Cordeliers' Square. It's a long shot, with a great deal of depth of focus. We can see the sky and fronts of four buildings, each four or five stories tall. It's 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 of us, pulled by two horses. Various tradesmen pass on wagons. One van passes.Votes1,196
- A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.Votes1,509
- A shot of Trafalgar Square.Votes908
- People start a snowball fight on a street in Lyons, France.Votes1,975
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- A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.Votes2,072
- Two men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.Votes1,102