年 1896

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already packaged for sale.

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

“The watchful father disturbs a dream of bliss, and the bucolic lover is taught a lesson. He made a great hit.” (Edison film catalog)

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.

The first travelling shot.

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Short of the Tuileries.

Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park.

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.

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

Three women get in a horse-drawn carriage, as servants load luggage on the roof, before it pulls away.

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

A large wedding procession.

Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.

A mother takes her children for a walk, lifts her baby girl out of the buggy and gently sets her down to the ground. She then moves a few steps away and calls her name, to demonstrate that her baby can walk.

Three young women dance in Drury Lane, London.

Game of marbles between four or five boys.

A trains arrives at Perrache station and people disembark.