according to the edison motion pictures site this was an experimental picture to test new equipment and new techniques more than anything else.
the film is a small fragment of a boy swinging his clubs. part 1 is the original and part 2 is the looped version. all this will make a bit more sense when you see fragment 2 where all the material was composed together by gordon hendricks.
the film looks scary like eraserhead, only missing the noise typical for lynch :) not as interesting as some of the other early heise/dickson works, but worth seeing.