Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.

King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.

Sculptress Virginia May is seen making a clay model of a tyrannosaurus rex, which is animated using stop motion, and then fights a stop-motion...

An athlete demonstrating various poses.

A visual celebration of Manhattan and its waterways on the 300th anniversary of purchase from the local Native Americans.

A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.

Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a farrier prepares a horse's hoof to...

Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.

[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of...

A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer...

A Chinese dragon parade.