Swimming in the Sea

Children Digging For Clams – the best short for watching children dressed in silly period garb

Loading a Boiler, or, “the one where nothing happens”.

Dragoons Crossing the Sâone – dragoon: noun, cavalryman, a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed mounted troops.

Promenade of Ostriches – actually only one ostrich, also a camel and some elephants

Childish Quarrel

Lion, London Zoological Garden – more animals getting taunted for the camera

Photograph

Transformation by Hats

Carmaux: Drawing Out The Coke – coke: noun, the residue of coal left after destructive distillation and used as fuel.

Poultry-Yard – an inferior remake of Edison’s “Feeding the Doves”

Arab Cortege, Geneva – first appearance of a black person in the cinema?

New York: Brooklyn Bridge

New York: Broadway and Union Square

Policeman’s Parade, Chicago