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Early film shows skaters in long skirts and suits gliding around a rink. Roller skating was already a craze by then, and it has come back again and again.

Viral clips of camels draining a soda bottle in seconds are funny. What a thirsty camel can really put away in ten minutes is more impressive.

A bucking dromedary can throw a rider in a heartbeat. In the Gulf, that risk helped end the use of child jockeys and put remote-controlled robots in the saddle.

Import, trim, order, add sound and titles, export. The five steps every editor uses, in any program.

Bell’s Rocket Belt flew in 1961 and dazzled crowds for decades. The catch was a flight time measured in seconds.

Lucky Strike’s stop-motion square dance was one of television’s first memorable commercials. Two decades later, cigarette ads were banned from American TV altogether.

You already own a decent camera and free editing software. How to shoot footage that is actually worth editing.

On April 23, 2005, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a clip of himself in front of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo. It is still online.

A 1940 Soviet science film showed a dog’s head kept alive by machine. It is gruesome, partly staged, and tied to a real step toward the heart-lung machine.

In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge used a row of cameras to prove a trotting horse lifts all four hooves off the ground. His photographs were a step toward cinema.