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 on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water, causing a cloud of vapor in the process.
Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.
In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching them from the nearby pier.
A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.
A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing a large profile caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The loss of the rest of the film has bequeathed us 6 seconds that are of Mechem standing next to the completed portrait and sadly, that is all there is. An early film made by Birt Acres for R.W. Paul. (see release information for further detail).
A Senegalese woman carries a child on her back at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.
A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already packaged for sale.
In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a black uniform, demonstrates how to mount the horse then encourages and tries to assist a man in white. The man in white keeps falling, and soon it's apparent that he's an putting on a show. His pratfalls become more elaborate and stylish. The horse stands patient. The little groom laughs to see such sport. And finally, the man in white finds a comic accommodation. The story, though brief, has a beginning, middle, and end.
Félix Regnault is carried on a palanquin by marching Malagasy men at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets caught red-handed, which results in him closing the game board.
A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
The Leigh Sisters perform a risqué Trilby-inspired dance with an umbrella. Scene from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.
By Fiji Islanders. A peculiar dance by genuine artists, dressed or rather undressed, in their native garb. The revel takes its name from the paddles they hold in their hands.
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.
Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.
A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.
An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.
A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.
