Lancement d'un navire (1896)

Angelic and demonic serpentine dances from dawn of cinema. The dancer is Loie Fuller; the pioneer modern dancer. Recorded in Paris, and hand-colored frame by frame.

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along the road becomes the target of opportunity. He falls off his bicycle. He's not hurt, but he rides back the way he came, as the fight continues.

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

The first travelling shot.

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.

Loïe Fuller performs a serpentine dance.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

Francis Doublier does bicycle tricks in the street.

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually accomplished by placing the camera on a moving transport, such as a boat or train.

프랑스의 브레따뉴 지방 사비니엥 백작의 성에서는 아들 오렐과 대녀인 셀린느와 사제의 사생아인 타르깽이 서로 형제같이 어린 시절을 보낸다. 성년이 된 이들은 1789년, 프랑스 혁명을 맞이하는데 셀린느만이 성에 남고 오렐은 미국으로 타르깽은 파리로 떠난다. 사비니엥 백작은 날으는 방법(글라이더)에 몰두하는데 셀린느는 둘을 기다리며 백작의 작업을 도와준다. 4년후, 공화주의자로 변모한 타르깽이 파리에서 돌아와 공화정의 군대를 징집하고 셀린느로 하여금 주민들을 교육시킨다. 한편 미국에서 돌아온 오렐은 참혹해진 프랑스를 보고 실망한다. 셀린느가 타르깽을 사랑하는 걸로 오해한 오렐은 질투심에 불타고 무단 정치에 공포를 느껴 대항아는 왕당파에 가담하지만 전쟁의 무의함을 느껴 셀린느에게 편지를 보낸다. 그리 셀린느도 그의 사랑이 진실임을 깨닫는다. 무수한 인명을 죽이면서까지 연적인 오렐을 끝까지 제거하려는 타르깽에게 셀린느는 총을 쏘고 성에 갇혀 감옥을 알려준다. 셀린느를 구한 오렐은 공화정 군대의 총격을 받으면서 아버지 사비니엥이 발명한 기계를 타고 하늘로 향해 오른다.

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.

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

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Le Manoir du diable or The House of the Devil, released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in Britain as The Devil's Castle, is an 1896 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. The film tells the story of an encounter with the Devil and various attendant phantoms. It is intended to evoke amusement and wonder from its audiences, rather than fear. However, because of its themes and characters, it has been considered to technically be the first horror film, as well as potentially the first vampire film. The film opens with a large bat flying into a medieval castle, circling a room, and then suddenly changing into the Devil. Producing a cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a young girl and various supernatural creatures in an effort to scare two cavaliers, eventually succeeding in causing one to flee. Ultimately the remaining cavalier is confronted face-to-face by the Devil before reaching for and brandishing a large crucifix, which causes the Devil to vanish.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy then lifts his foot from the hose, whereby the water squirts up in the gardener's face. The gardener chases the boy, grips his ear and slaps him in his buttocks. The boy then runs away and the gardener continues his watering. Three separate versions of this film exist, this is the original, filmed by Louis Lumière.

Likely in June 1897, 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.