The crime (1890-1891). The train (September 16, 1890) ; Marking time (October 20-November 11, 1890) ; Edison's newest wonder (December 1890-May 1891)

Europe (1866-1880). Letters of introduction (1866) ; God's own country (1866-1869) ; Silver and salt (1841-1854) ; War (1870-1871) ; Buried alive (1870-1871) ; Washed ashore at the lizard (1870-1873) ; Parenthesis: occident in motion (Sacramento, California, 1873) ; Artists (1875-1878) ; The spark (c. 1880) ; The new world (1881-1882)

To America and back (1882-1887). Parenthesis: WKL (1879) ; Louisiana centennial (1882-1885) ; A gun that kills nothing (1880-1885) ; Shadows walking on the walls (1885-1886) ; The wizard's tower (1884-1886) ; Life on glass (1886) ; Thomas A. Edison can go to hell (1886-1887) ; Keeping clear of the sharks (1887)

The first film (1887-1888). The starting point of all motion (May-August 1887) ; A man walks around a corner (August 1887) ; "Investigators" at Woodhouse lane (January 1888) ; The Muybridge lecture (February 1888) ; Haggard miles of half-buried houses (March 1888) ; A sewing machine, multiplied by three (spring and summer 1888) ; A yorkshire summer (summer 1888) ; Roundhay garden scene (October 8-14, 1888) ; Marey, Le Prince, and Dickson (October 15-November 29, 1888)

Motion pictures (1889-1901).Transparent, flexible, and unbreakable (November and December 1888) ; Edison and Marey (spring, summer, and fall 1889) ; I shall be with you all in mind (Christmas 1889) ; A trick of the light (1890) ; The Jumel mansion (1890) ; Dijon (September 16, 1890) ; Dickson DX (1891-1895) ; Cinema (1895-1901) ; Adolphe (1897-1901) ; The fathers of the movies (1902-2020)

Coda: the drowned man (October 1890).