Film of Every Year

Serie de fotografías del tránsito del planeta Venus a través del Sol en 1874.

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.

In this brief photographic sequence, Eadweard Muybridge himself poses nude and swings a miner's pick, in 18 different photographs.

Telescopic chronophotography of the 1882 transit of Venus as observed from Lick Observatory.

Individual photographs of the running of a buffalo shot in rapid succession.

A machine tries to replicate a man walking.

A frame sequence featuring a man walking around a corner.

In the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.

Alleged silent black-and-white short film shot at Apsley Gate, Hyde Park, London.

One of W.K.L. Dickson's laboratory workers horses around for the camera.

Two men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.

One night, Arlequin come to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.

Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.

The earliest extant sound film, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost. It depicts William K.L. Dickson standing in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder.

An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.

Un tren llega a la estación La Ciotat.

Documentary film depicting the 1897 boxing match between James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons in Carson City, Nevada on St. Patrick's Day. Originally running for more than 100 minutes, it is the world's first feature film.

Much to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.

A humorous subject intended to be run as a part of a railroad scene during the period in which the train is passing through a tunnel.

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

A winner and sure to please. In front of one of the largest newspaper offices is a hot air shaft through which immense volumes of air are forced by a blower. Ladies in crossing this shaft often have their clothes slightly disarranged. A young man is escorting a young lady and talking very earnestly. They walk slowly along until they stand directly over the air shaft. The young lady's skirts are suddenly raised to an almost unreasonable height, greatly to her horror and much to the amusement of the newsboys, bootblacks, and passersby.

Un grupo de astrónomos se enrumban en una expedición hacia la luna.

Unos bandidos asaltan un tren, pero se encuentran con una cuadrilla decidida en perseguirlos.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.