Spanish dancer Carmencita performs dancing routines while being filmed by Edison Company cameraman. Reportedly she was the first woman to be featured in an Edison Company film. This sequence was filmed at Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey, USA
Two cats fight in a boxing ring. Cats wearing boxing gloves as they fight. Early moving images filmed in Edison's Black Maria studio, West Orange, New Jersey, USA
Famous Venezuelan slack wire walker, Juan A. Caicedo, called the "King of the Wire", performs before Edison cameraman, outdoors, on the grounds of the Edison Laboratory at West Orange, New Jersey
The Glenroy Brothers stage a choreographed comic boxing match in which they manage to miss as they swing at each other, and do cartwheels and the like. Filmed at Edison's Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey, USA
"Arab Knife Juggler" Hadji Cheriff, enters a boxing ring, carrying a large knife, that he tosses aside. He then begins to perform a series of acrobatic stunts. Recorded at the Edison Black Maria studio, West Orange, New Jersey, United States.
Cowboy, Lee Martin, of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, rides his horse "Sunfish" behaving like a bucking bronco, in a corral. Frank Hammitt, also from the Wild West Show, stands on the fencing, firing a pistol at the ground. Cowboy Martin waves his hat and smiles during the ride. Recorded on grounds of the Edison Company in West Orange, New Jersey, United States.
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