Disc 1: NEW BEGINNNGS: Exiting the factory / Louis and Auguste Lumière ; music by Neil Brand (France, 1896, 1:13 min.)
Arrival of a train / Louis and Auguste Lumière ; music by Neil Brand (France, 1897, 0:48 min.)
Card party / Louis and Auguste Lumière ; music by Eric le Guen (France, 1896, 1:26 min.)
Kobelkoff (France, 1900, 1:24 min.)
Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's cage) ; music by Eric le Guen (France, 1900, 2:08 min.)
Cyrano de Bergerac / Clement-Maurice with Coquelin Ainé for the Phono-Cinéma-Théatre (1900, 1:55 min.)
La Marseillaise / Georges Mendel (France, 1907, 2:41 min.)
MAGICAL MOVIES: Excelsior! Prince of magicians / Georges Méliès (France, 1901, 2:06 min.)
The Talion punishment / Gaston Velle, Pathé frères ; music, Eric le Guen (France, 1906, 4:13 min.)
Kiriki, Japanese acrobats / Segundo de Chomon, Pathé frères ; music, Eric le Guen (France, 1907, 2:38 min.)
An excursion to the moon / Segundo de Chomon, Pathé frères ; music, Frederick Hodges (France, 1908, 6:47 min.)
The automatic moving company / Romeo Bosetti, Pathé frères (France, 1911, 4:23 min.)
SEEING THE WORLD: The seine flood / Ec;o[se 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.)
The 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, 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.)
The fireman of the Follies-Bergère / 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.).
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 Léger ; 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, Stéphane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (France, 1939, 6:20 min.).
Disc 2: LAUGHING LIKE WE USED TO: The dancing pig / / Pathé frères ; music, Frederick Hodges (France, 1907, 2:24 min.)
The monkey race / Italia Film ; music, Eric Beheim (Italy, 1909, 4:03 min.)
I fetch the bread / Pathé frères ; 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, 1942, 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.)
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 ; music, Donald Sosin (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.).