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- This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- This is the lady whose graceful interpretations of the poetry of motion has made this dance so popular of recent years. - From 'The Phonoscope' (1899)
- "Musicians are seated, playing, while the graceful Dolorita dances. It is the Danse-du-Ventre, the famous Oriental muscle dance."
- "Shows a beach full of bathers. They sport in and out of the water. Surf breaks and recedes. Bathing suits cling to their figures in a very statuesque fashion."
- Lost film that depicts the burning of Joan of Arc. Only fragments of it still exist in the Centre Jeanne d'Arc in Orléans and in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
- A look at the waterfalls of the Passaic River in the northern New Jersey city of Passaic.
- Showing the ill-fated steamer, which, while loaded with passengers, was recently sunk in New York Harbor in collision with the ferry boat Oregon.
- Two men have a contest to see which one can be the first to eat a large slice of watermelon.
- Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films made for Edison's kinetoscopes.
- Cissy Fitzgerald, in all her finery of billowy lace, with graceful and agile movements, and kick and wink, danced down to the foot-lights in that daring fashion with which so many became familiar when she visited Boston a short time ago. This reproduction was very much like the original, and elicited loud applause.
- Showing a transatlantic steamer afloat, sailing down the river, as she starts on her long voyage.
- See Dr. Colton administering "laughing gas" to a patient and then pulling a tooth.
- "Formed by the junction of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and 35th Street. The picturesque low roofed Herald building is plainly shown; also the passing crowds and group of idlers."
- Shows the continuous stream of daily traffic on New York City's greatest business artery. The constantly changing crowds are a bewildering spectacle.
- Looking down Broadway from Union Square.
- "Taken at the famous wein-stube in Harlem. Tables are filled with visitors, sipping their wine and beer and playing cards. The pretty waitress attracts much attention."
- A lady watering the garden with a hose, a mischievous boy stops the flow of water until she looks for the cause, when he permits the water to flow, resulting in the lady taking an unexpected bath. The father then appears and chastises the youthful culprit. One of the best films ever made.
- This view is taken in Mott Street, New York City, and shows a busy throng of people.
- A scene at "Death Curve."
- Artist draws pictures of William McKinley and President Grover Cleveland.