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- James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
- "This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of the great inventor. The scene is an actual one, showing Mr. Edison in working dress engaged in an interesting chemical experiment in his great Laboratory. There is sufficient movement to lead the spectator through the several processes of mixing, pouring, testing, etc. as if he were side by side with the principal. The lights and shadows are vivid, and the apparatus and other accessories complete a startling picture that will appeal to every beholder."
- "A comic subject, clear, bright and characteristic. Shows four girls in their night dresses, engaged in an animated pillow fight. During the action the pillows become torn, and the feathers fly over their heads and about the room in great numbers, producing with the white dresses and the black background a novel effect. Sharp, full of action, and popular in character."
- "The hen house occupies the entire left foreground of the picture, running back to the nearby road. The main foreground is filled with tall grass swept by the wind, the naturalness of which effect is remarkable. A thief appears 'round the corner, carrying a tattered sack. He suspiciously approaches the window, from which two fowl are handed to him by a black confederat, who himself suddenly appears at the window, falling out head first but clinging tenaciously to a fluttering white bird. Both [of them] start to run when the farmer and his hand appear in the foreground, one with a scythe and the other with a gun. Just as the marauders disappear 'round the corner, the farmer, back to, but still shown at life-size in the picture, aims and fires twice. The smoke effect from the gun at this close range is startling and beautiful, and the entire picture is one of the best composed and most ingenious we have made."
- "A group of seven children gathered about a tub of soap suds, pushing and jostling for preference. This is an exterior scene, full of animation and free from artificiality. The figures are clearly defined, well in the foreground, and the group well composed. The familiar scene of children blowing soap bubbles from clay pipes is here shown under natural conditions."
- "Shows a party of young people in front of a barn door, searching for the red ear, which is discovered, and the penalty exacted from one of the group who resists payment of the forfeit, thereby creating confusion and merriment. The group is animated, and is made up of real farmer boys and girls. During the progress of husking, the farmer arrives wheeling his little daughter to the sport on a barrow."
- "Three children at the wash bowl. The picture opens with one of the little ones taking the others out of bed, followed by the washing, in which one splashes water over the other. The picture is interesting, and its domestic color pleasing."
- "Depicts a boating scene on an inland lake at a popular summer resort. Two boat loads of pleasure seekers start from the wharf, and come to the front of the picture. One of the oarsmen, losing an oar, jumps headlong into the water, while his boat and its female occupants float out of reach. The figures are large and well defined, and the effect of the sunlight on the rippling water adds brightness to the scene."