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- A devil conjures up a dancing woman from a mystical flame.
- A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
- Reenactment of a scene from the Boxer Rebellion.
- A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- Robinson Crusoe and Friday fight with hostile natives, and eventually retire to their jungle cottage to relax.
- Two demons throw helpless captives into a boiling cauldron, and then try to summon forth their spirits.
- In this spectacular free adaptation of the popular theatre play "La Biche au Bois", the valiant Prince Bel-Azor pursues a baleful old witch to her impregnable castle, to save the beautiful young Princess Azurine.
- Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
- Three Sunday school teachers try to instruct the workers at a Chinese laundry. After Sunday school, the workers lure the teachers to an opium den. The men are arrested in a police raid
- Pioneer filmmaker Georges Melies tells his version of the famous Washington Irving story of a man who takes a nap and wakes up 20 years later.
- A penniless troubadour consults the Fairy Carabosse about his future but offends her by paying with a bag of sand.
- Two travelers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil.
- An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.
- A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.
- In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assistant.
- Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
- Two Actors try their hands at stage comedy.
- Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.
- Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love.
- After causing restaurant chaos at work, a bumbling waiter tears up the local roller rink with his skating.
- A young woman grows tired of providing for her family.
- The members of a Chinese family living in the US have a curse put upon them for becoming too "westernized".
- The Tramp is tricked into impersonating an embezzling floorwalker in a department store.
- Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
- An aging veteran, tired of his life in the veterans' home, decides to move in with his wealthy uncle.
- Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.
- Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
- While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.
- In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
- A clerk in a failing antiques store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl.
- Our hero saves a man from drowning, only to find that it is the wrong man.
- Snitch steals Ginger's baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game.
- The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
- Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
- A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm.
- At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.
- A man who goes by the name The Sport decides where he wants to spend his last twenty-five cents. He chases the girl he's infatuated with, and encounters colorful characters along the way.
- A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. After slapping at his advance, a women phones her husband to come kill him. Unsure what to do, Harold randomly enters the studio and is offered to 'manage' the store.
- A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off -- even if she's doesn't know about it.
- Our newlywed hero is about to embark on his honeymoon when he realizes that he has lost the train tickets. In a mad scramble to find them, his bride is led to believe that she has been deserted.
- Chased from his apartment by a policeman, ne'er do-well Rastus Jones finds refuge in a Chinese laundry, where he wreaks slapstick havoc and has a memorable encounter with an improperly-filled opium pipe.
- A professor of Egyptology seeks a mummy for experimentation. A young man devises a scheme to give the professor his desire in hopes of winning the hand in marriage of the teacher's daughter.
- Charlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding an chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). He loves the neighbor's daughter Edna but is disliked by her father. He rides a cow into a stream and is kicked off. Unconscious, he dreams of a nymph dance. Back in reality a city slicker is hurt in a car crash and is being cared for by Edna. When Charlie is rejected after attempting to imitate the slicker, the result is ambiguous--either tragic or a happy ending. Critics have long argued as to whether the final scene is real or a dream.
- A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
- The young couple have decided to marry and it is time to ask the father for the hand of his daughter. Problem is, the father does not want to give the daughter away. So every time he goes to the office to ask the father, he is tossed out. He is ejected over and over, by different methods, while the girl waits and waits.
- An American, separated from his troop, protects a helpless Russian girl from marauding Bolsheviks.
- A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
- Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.
- While running away from his girl's father, their car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step ahead of the girl's father, but also those trying to rob them of everything they have.
- Young playwright spends his last cent to pay the rent of struggling actress in a theatrical boarding house. Pursuing her, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big, just before a police raid.