Disc 1. New beginnings. Exiting the factory / Lumiere (France, 1896, 1:13 min.) ; Arrival of a train / Gaumont ( France, 1897, 0:48 min.) ; Card party / Lumiere (France, 1896, hand-colored, 1:26 min.) ; Kobelkoff (France, 1900, 1:24 min.) ; Danse Serpentine (In a lion's cage) (France, 1900, hand-colored, 2:08 min.) ; Cyrano de Bergerac / Phono-Cinema-Theatre (1900, hand-colored, sound on cylinder, 1:55 min.) ; La Marseillaise / Georges Mendel (France, 1907 sound on disc, 2:41 min.) --
Magical movies. Excelsior! Prince of Magicians / Georges M�eli�es (France, 1901, 2:06 min.) ; The Talion punishment / Gaston Velle, Path�e fr�eres (France, 1906, stencil-colored, 4:13 min.) ; Kiriki, Japanese acrobats / Segundo de Chomon, Path�e fr�eres (France, 1907, hand-colored, 2:38 min.) ; An excursion to the moon / Segundo de Chomon, Path�e fr�eres (France, 1908, stencil-colored, 6:47 min.) ; The Automatic Moving Company / Romeo Bosetti, Path�e fr�eres (France, 1911, 4:23 min.)
Seine flood / Eclipse Company ; music, Eric Beheim (France, 1910, 4:16 min.) ; Over the top (A battle with the elements) / Earle Films ; music, Eric Beheim (USA, 1915, 11:22 min.) ; A visit to Los Angeles / Ford Motor Company ; music, Frederick Hodges (USA, 1916, 10:25 min.) ; Montmartre's kids / music, Eric le Guen (France, 1916, 3:51 min.) ; Dirigible Los Angeles / Blackhawk Films ; music, Eric Beheim (USA, 1924, 19:24 min.) ; In the land of giants and pygmies / Aurelio Rossi ; music, Eric le Guen (1925, stencil-colored, English intertitles, 8:33 min.) ; Technicolor fashion parade / Fashion Features, Inc ; music, Frederick Hodges (USA, 1927, 5:53 min.) ; Charles A. Lindbergh, hero of the air / Fox-Case Movietone (USA, 1927, 11:50 min.) ; Fireman of the Follies-Berg�ere / with Josephine Baker ; music, Eric le Guen (France, 1928, 7:38 min.) ; Meet me down at Coney Isle / Fox Magic Carpet of Movietone (USA, 1932, 8:13 min.).
Disc 2. Laughing like we used to. The dancing pig / Path�e fr�eres ; music, Frederick Hodges (France, 1907, 2:24 min.) ; Monkey race / Italia Film ; music, Eric Beheim (Italy, 1909, 4:03 min.) ; I fetch the bread / Path�e fr�eres ; music, Eric Beheim (France, 1907, 5:10 min.) ; Artheme swallows his clarinet / Eclipse Company ; music, Eric Beheim (France, 1912, 3:54 min.) ; Kid's auto race / Keystone Film Co. ; producer, Mack Sennett ; with Charlie Chaplin ; music, Eric Beheim (USA, 1914, 6:20 min.) ; The pest / Amalgamated Productions ; producer/director, G. M. Anderson ; with Stan Laurel ; music, Frederick Hodges (USA, 1922, 22:26 min.) ; Lizzies of the field / producer, Mack Sennett ; director, Del Lord ; music, Eric Beheim (USA, 1924, 14:04 min.) --
Drawings and models. Fantasmagoria / Gaumont Company ; by Emile Cohl ; music, Frederick Hodges (France, 1908, 1:30 min.) ; Cartoon factory / Fleischer Studios ; by Max Fleischer (USA, 1924, 7:53 min.) ; In the orient : Tony Sarg's Marionettes / Columbia Pictures ; by Tony Sarge (USA, 1929, 9:52 min.) ; Ain't she sweet / Fleischer Studios ; with Lillian Roth (USA, 1932, 7:11 min.) ; Balloonland (aka The Pincushion man) / Ub Iwerks (USA, Cinecolor, 1935, 6:41 min.) ; Play safe / Fleischer Studios (USA, Technicolor, 1936, 7:05 min.) --
Grace notes. Radi-Ators / Columbia Pictures ; Utica Jubilee Singers (USA, 1929, 9:18 min.) ; Black and tan / RCA ; director, Dudley Murphy with Fernand L�eger ; Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra (USA, 1929, 18:10 min.) ; Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen (Denmark, 1934, 9:05 min.) ; Jazz hot / with Django Reinhardt, St�ephane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (France, 1939, 6:20 min.)
Disc 3. Persuade me. California election news #2 / produced by MGM ; "a campaign film in one of the dirtiest-ever political campaigns" (USA, 1934, 6:52 min.) ; 3 advertisements for theaters produced in France: Week-end / with Fernandel ; produced by Virginia Week-End Tobacco (France, 1938, 2:17 min.) ; Cette nuit-la / with Jacques Tati ; produced by Levitan and Co. (France, 1935, 1:31 min.) ; Clo-cloche / with Michel Simon ; produced by Caporal (France, 1935, 2:08 min.) ; MGM promo reel / MGM ; with Laurel & Hardy (France, 1936, 8:30 min.) ; Master hands / Chevrolet Motor Co. ; producer, Jam Handy Organization (USA, 1936, 31:48 min.) ; Philips Broadcast of 1938 / Philips Radio A/S ; animator, George Pal (Holland, 1938, 4:57 min.) ; Three "Soundies" made for coin-operated jukebox devices: Yankee Doodler / Soundies Dist. Corp (USA, 1942, 2:54 min.) ; Rosie the riveter / Soundies Dist. Corp. (USA, 1943, 2:38 min.) ; Dear Arabella / Soundies Dist. Corp. (USA, 1942, 2:38 min.) ; Hell bent for election / UPA Pictures ; 1944 campaign film for Roosevelt ; animation, Chuck Jones (USA, 1944, 12:30 min.) --
Tell me a story. For his son / Biograph Co. ; producer/director, D.W. Griffith ; with Charles Hill Mailes, Blanche Sweet (USA, 1912, 14:52 min.) ; Suspense / Rex Films ; producers/directors, Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley ; with Lois Weber, Val Paul (USA, 1913, 10:10 min.) ; The heart of an Indian (aka. The Indian massacre) / Bison Motion Pictures ; director, Thomas Ince ; with Francis Ford, Ann Little (USA, 1912, 32:20 min.) --
One for the road. Stolen kisses [compilation] (ca. 1920s, 3:30 min.).