Año 1898

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and clay head on the statue, thus completing it. He places a large brick on top of the head to make it stick. When he turns his back the statue turns into a living representation of William Tell. (Edison Catalog)

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

Soldiers ambush a house.

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with his hand…

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

Parade of guards during Queen Wilhelminas coronation.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

A preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera.

This picture was taken on the line of the Mt. Tamalpais Scene R.R., and whereas the previous views were taken ascending, this is a descending view, the camera being placed on the front end of the train which follows another train consisting of two passengers coaches and an engine.

A review of engineers at the Longchamp parade, filmed by the Lumière brothers.