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- A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.
- An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
- A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it.
- An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that he focuses on the ankle of a young woman who is a short distance away. Her husband catches the gent looking. What will the two men now do?
- A girl gives a spoonful of medicine to a kitten.
- Smith casts his wife as a sluttish housewife who is mutilated by lighting her oven with paraffin.
- The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's over-matched. What will become of the mission, its defenders, and its occupants?
- An artist draws a coster couple who come to life and dance a cakewalk.
- A train is leaving a railway station at the outskirts of Jerusalem. From the very end of the train a barren, rocky landscape is seen, and some ruins of very old buildings,. Five men walk along the track, tipping their hats when the train departs. When it approaches the station building more people are seen, people of different ethnicity and religion. Some men wear fezzes on their heads and canes in their hands. A Franciscan monk comes walking in the middle of a mixed group of people. The platform outside the station is crowded with people waiting for the next train. Among them is a man with a sword at his side. The big windows of the station are covered with shutters. After the station the train passes a long fence, enclosing a lumberyard.
- A boy looks through glasses at various objects, seen magnified.
- A man dreams he is flirting with an attractive young lady, then he wakes up in bed next to his wife.
- A beetle is possessed by the soul of an ancient Egyptian princess, who is determined to get her revenge on a member of the British Parliament.
- A tramp steals a bicycle and is chase by a PC and a crowd.
- Arthème loves playing the clarinet. He plays it in the streets, in the park, in the streetcar (at least when he does not miss it!). When he unfortunately walks under a piano clumsy removers are hauling, the heavy instrument falls down on him and he swallows his clarinet. A lot of people try to extirpate the protruding instrument but they all fail. Three farriers finally succeed in making him return to his former self.
- The challenge of the very slow lens required by F. Percy Smith for macro-photography, coupled with the insensitive film stock of the day, meant that so much light was required for exposure that the poor flies quickly succumbed to the heat. As Smith had glued their wings so that they could not fly away, they used their legs to achieve the memorable results seen here.
- A cleverly conceived picture of a little boy and girl with building blocks. The little girl has erected a pretty structure, which the boy proceeds to demolish with pokes of his fingers. When the demolition of the house is completed, the film is shown in reverse, and the little building comes back to its original form in a most marvellous manner.
- A Chinese government executioner prepares to behead a captured member of a notorious bandit gang in Mukden, China.
- A hungry vagabond snatches a wrapped leg of lamb and jumps into a large wooden barrel to hide. Will he get away scot-free?
- A hunting horn sounds in the distance, setting the village dogs barking with excitement, and soon round the corner of the lane there comes the master with his pack of big hounds and bevy of shaggy, rough-coated terriers, the latter yelping and straining at their leashes. Over the meadows we go first, hounds trying the stream bit by bit, then into the woods, where in the shade of the old trees and mass of tall tangled undergrowth, hounds are almost hidden from our view. We have scrambled over many hedges, helping the ladies over at some times, at others ungallantly having to leave them in order that we might get the bioscope's omniscient eye pointed upon the hounds as they begin to whimper and feather on some faint scent. Soon we leave the path and take to the water, wading in and out of cool pools, tripping and slipping on the boulders to the peril of the bioscope. The hills have closed in on either side, fine old oak trees, rich in green, their trunks covered with green lichen, rise up around us, yet we have not found a beaver. But what is that? One old hound hugging the bank gives a whimper, the others gather round, and the terriers, wishing to have their say, dash up and look important; then there is a splash, a streak of shining grey flits across the water, and we are away full cry. Hounds giving tongue, terriers barking, and some local country gentlemen loudly shouting, we race up stream: "Give the hounds room and don't yell," promptly cries the master; the whips take up their positions, cheering on the hounds, and thus we go up the stream, till at last, in a clear, deep pool, the sides of steep rock covered in rich green moss, among a tangled mass of dead tree trunks, the beaver gets away underground. Then the terriers have their day working down into her underground refuge, and out she pops to lead us yet further up among the hills, when, at last, surrounded and secured by hounds, it is caught.
- A thief jumps a fence and removes the shutter from a house. He enters, but a lad who's witnessed the crime runs off to hail the coppers.
- A mischievous errand boy, sent out on a delivery, causes havoc in the streets of Hove. When he arrives back at the shop, he finds all his furious victims are already there complaining to the grocer -- and the chase is on!
- Merchants hire a foreign criminal to kidnap a scientist for the secret of manufacturing diamonds.
- A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading glass. He suddenly notices that the cheese is a little out of the ordinary, and examines it with his glass. To his horror, he finds it to be alive with mites, and, in disgust, leaves the table. Hundreds of mites resembling crabs are seen scurrying in all directions. A wonderful picture and a subject hitherto unthought of in animated photography.
- A film crew records the sights and sounds of the Nile River, circa 1911. One of the first experiments of colorized films, utilizing Kinemacolor.
- The first 150 feet shows Madrali stripped for the great contest, being finally tested as to his condition by his trainer, Pierri. Also Hackenschmidt indulging in skipping and other exercises and lifting his trainer over his head. A fine picture of the muscular developments of the marvelous Russian succeeds this, his phenomenal build and muscle control being splendidly shown in a series of aspects. The remaining 300 feet of the film presents the entire duration of the great match at Olympia, from start to finish. A marvelous picture, the first successfully taken by artificial illumination.
- Shipwreck scene from 'His Majesty's Theatre' production.
- Commencing with views of Tenby and its picturesque harbor, we are shown the quaint towns of Manorbler and Cenarth, Pembro Castle, now a noble ruin, and finally are taken upon an interesting visit to Mumble's Head and the Sands.
- Eight scenes: Girl dreams of Dick Whittington, Robinson Crusoe, Forty Thieves, Aladdin, Cinderella, Bluebeard and Red Riding Hood.
- An officer steals plans in return for a spy framing his rival.
- A escaped convict changes clothes with a police inspector.
- 20 scenes: The birth, life, marriage and death of Hiawatha.
- A fakir breaks dishes and by sprinkling his powder upon the pieces restores them to their original condition. A gullible old gentleman purchases some of the powder and in attempting to imitate the feats of the fakir breaks all the dishes in his home before he realizes that he has been buncoed.
- Satan drives a train over telegraph wires, under the sea, etc.
- This scene is a pleasing variation from the chase pictures which have recently become so popular, in that it is laid in the 17th Century during the period when the famous gentleman highwayman "JACK SHEPPARD" rode boldly up and down the highways of Merry England robbing the rich and aiding the poor. The costumes are all appropriate to the times. At the opening an old time mail coach is seen lumbering along a picturesque road. "JACK SHEPPARD" and a companion on horseback hold up the coach with their horse-pistols and courteously deprive the passengers of their valuables. One hysterical lady faints and the men in the party are helpless. The two bold highwaymen gallop away just as a couple of guardsmen ride up. The guard men learning of the robbery, start off in pursuit of the bandits. The next scene is in a typical English wayside inn. The two robbers gallop up and enter, closely followed by the two guardsmen. Soon after they appear at a window high on a wall and with the aid of a rope quickly lower themselves to the ground. The guardsmen follow immediately discharging their pistols at the fleeing highwaymen. The succeeding scenes are exciting chases over a picturesque English country-side. In one case there is a hand-to-hand conflict and another particularly picturesque portion is where the robbers climb down the edge of a rocky side. The two men finally take refuge in a large tree thinking to escape their pursuers but are discovered and shot out of the tree, the bodies falling heavily to the ground. Thus ends a most dramatic series of incidents.
- Revival of an old drama founded on the marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine Howard. The Duke of Norfolk, friend of "Bluff King Hal," marries Catherine secretly. The King sees Catherine, loves her, swears she shall by his wife, at the same time requests Norfolk to marry Margaret, Henry's sister. Norfolk, to avoid marrying, pretends death and is placed in the tombs, expecting to be released by Catherine. She, however, deserts him and marries the King; Margaret saves Norfolk; Henry finds Catherine unfaithful and she is punished.
- A small girl ties her sister's suitor to a chair.
- The film opens with a most animated scene both outside and inside the race-course, gateways, at Longchamps, and the gaily dressed elite of Paris are seen to arrive. Next comes the carriage with the President. Excellent portraits of M. Fallieres, and many of the leading state officials and deputies, as well as of the Grand Duke Vladimer of Russia are presented. Then the horses and jockeys entering the course, the race, and Spearmint's triumphant finish, concluding with the leading horses re-entering the enclosure. Fine close-up view. ''Spearmint" won the 1906 Derby and the Paris Grand Prix. The first English horse to lift the French Prize in 20 years.
- An historical drama, illustrating the court life of France, governed by the influence of Catherine de Medici. Splendidly reproduced, powerfully enacted, full of human interest and incident. Introducing the following scenes: Courtyard, gallants and courtiers; the Audience Chamber, King Francis II and his court; the Royal Document, "on account of heresy and insolence to the Queen, our mother, we declare La Renandie guilty of high treason;" the Document is signed; Love scene on terrace, guards arrest La Renandie for high treason; Faithful unto death, prisoner brought forth; Final verdict, appeal to the King. He is ill; nobody is allowed an interview; the King's Pardon; La Renandie in prison, receipt of royal order for execution; Catherine de Medici intervenes and offers La Renandie his pardon, repulsed; the Firing Party prepares to carry out the execution, Mlle. D'Espard arrives with the King's pardon. Saved by love.