This program illustrates the diversity of early cinema and traces the beginnings of filmic narrative. It includes Thomas Edison films The Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1884), The May Irwin Kiss (1896), and Sandow, the Modern Hercules (1894); works by the Lumière brothers, such as Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, Feeding the Baby, and Watering the Gardener (all 1895); and delightful trick films: Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon (1902, Courtesy George Eastman House), Edwin S. Porter's Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906, Courtesy George Eastman House), F. Percy Smith's The Acrobatic Fly (1907), and others. The program continues with Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery (1903), D. W. Griffith's The Lonely Villa (1909), and finally, a brilliant but disturbing clip from Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915).