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- A man and woman are flirting when a professor turns on an X-ray machine, revealing their insides. After turning it off again the two have a dispute and break up.
- Smith casts his wife as a sluttish housewife who is mutilated by lighting her oven with paraffin.
- A boy looks through glasses at various objects, seen magnified.
- A humorous subject intended to be run as a part of a railroad scene during the period in which the train is passing through a tunnel.
- A girl gives a spoonful of medicine to a kitten.
- A man dreams he is flirting with an attractive young lady, then he wakes up in bed next to his wife.
- A King (played by Georges Méliès) shows up at his new castle where he is haunted.
- 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?
- Brother and sister are sent to bed on Christmas Eve, and while they are asleep, Santa Claus comes down the chimney and fills their waiting stockings with toys.
- 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 picture true to life, and a most excellent subject. Poor old grandma is seated in her chair, vainly attempting to engage a thread in the eye of the needle. The facial contortions that are engaged in are ludicrous to say the least. The needle is finally threaded, and the happy contented look that comes over the face of grandma is a most pleasing ending of the picture.
- Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.
- In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle. The other is a chimney sweep, and he's swinging what may be a bag of flour, but when it breaks open, it's clearly something else. Well into the havoc, spectators gather and give chase to the flour-covered sweep and the "well-sooted" miller.
- A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.
- An early POV experiment from Smith featuring two large spiders crawling.
- Two maiden ladies at afternoon tea relate shocking secrets of society with mingled horror and pleasure depicted by their expressions.
- Four cooks make sausages from cats, dogs, ducks and old boots.
- The ghost of a man's twin shows him a vision of how he was killed in a duel.
- Eight scenes: Sing a Song of Sixpence, Old Mother Hubbard, Little Miss Muffet, Goosey Gander, Jack and Jill, Old Woman in a Shoe, Hey Diddle Diddle.
- A man shaves, back to the camera, face reflected in a mirror.
- Suffragette takes over a gentleman's barber shop.
- Men in box watch a tenor and a dancing girl.
- Young lady art students are sketching a tiny sailor boy when a mouse disturbs their work. Magnified view of mouse's head protruding from hole. Gallant tiny sailor slays mouse, and art students left adoring the hero.
- An old man gets progressively livelier - and drunker - as he downs his bottle of beer. Finally, he cocks a snook - and doesn't bother to uncock it as he continues to drink.
- Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young.
- This is one of the greatest comic films ever placed on the market. Two well-fed and prosperous looking old gentlemen are examining, with great interest, an illustrated theatrical paper, which apparently recalls reminiscences of bygone days, and the humorous nature of their conversation, is indicated by the amused look on their faces, and their thorough enjoyment of the theme. The facial expression and gesture revealed by this film, is a most wonderful revelation of the art of moving picture photography, and the comic effect is so hearty and infectious that your audience will laugh with you. This film is a new one and has made the greatest hit of the season.
- A man is determined to smoke a bad cigar.
- A monk tells brother a naughty story.
- A photographer facing the camera poses the audience for a snapshot.
- A cab is hailed in front of a palatial mansion by a gentleman who wishes a score of people driven to another part of the city. A clown jumps out and a satisfactory agreement is made between the clown and the gentleman, and a score or so of persons are hustled in one at a time until the clown succeeds in piling in the whole lot except Bridget, who is carrying a child. The persistent clown, in order to assist the nurse, who tips the scale at 400 pounds, takes the child from her. After caressing it he tosses it on top of the cab. He then picks up a board and uses it with good effect on the extremities of the fat woman, until she is forced into the cab, which drives away with its load of humanity.
- Man smokes pipe and drinks beer. Woman plays with a cat and sews.
- A man tries to throw away sticky flypaper.
- Tramp hired to beat the carpet accidentally beats the housewife.
- A man eats sandwiches and refuses to pay. The film then reverses.
- Cook hides PC in copper and her mistress lights it.
- Mother Hubbard dances a hoe down and mutineers dance a hornpipe in a scene from 'Robinson Crusoe'.
- Symbolic scene of Britain crowded out by foreign traders.
- An escaped monkey drinks a baby's bottle.
- Two men argue over their newspapers.