Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

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"Firemen in working uniform, rubber coats, helmets, and boots. Thrilling rescue from burning building. Smoke effects are fine." - from the Edison...

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal...

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

While working near a psychiatric clinic, an electrician is struck by an accident at the very moment he sees a woman on the other side of a fence....

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.