History of cinimatic

Early chronophotography of the 1874 Venus transit, captured by Jules Janssen in Japan using his "photographic revolver" for scientific research.

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.

Pre-cinematograph colour animation of the monkey playing his violin

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

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

A very brief film of a man playing the accordion.

A shot of people walking on The Leeds Bridge.

A frame sequence featuring a man walking around a corner.

A horse with rider jumping over an obstacle

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

The very first American film shown to public audiences and the press. It depicts William K.L. Dickson taking off his hat and greeting the audience.

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

An athlete swings Indian clubs.

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

Customer gets a lightning-fast shave.

"A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)

Performing on what looks like a small wooden stage, wearing a dress with a hoop skirt and white high-heeled pumps, Carmencita does a dance with kicks and twirls, a smile always on her face.

Annie Oakley, the 'Little Miss Sure Shot' of the 'Wild West' gives an exhibition of rifle shooting at glass balls and clay pigeons in a film from the Edison Catalog.

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.

Pre-cinematograph colour animation of a woman and man at the beach.

Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.

A train arrives at La Ciotat station.

This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

A machine tries to replicate a man walking.

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