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- One night, Arlequin come to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.
- Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around.
- "A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)
- A scene from Charles Hoyt's 'A Milk White Flag': A brass band marches out, led by bandmaster Steele Ayers. When Ayers reaches his position, he turns around and directs the musicians as they take up their own positions.
- The Glenroy Brothers perform a portion of their vaudeville act, "The Comic View of Boxing: The Tramp & the Athlete".
- The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.
- Lively political debate, representing [Grover] Cleveland and [Benjamin] Harrison.
- An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
- A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already packaged for sale.
- The transformation of the same character in six different characters. A vision of the act of transformation.
- A man tries to get on a horse , but he climbs to one side and falls from the other, until he manages to stay in balance.
- A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him. Just as the photographer is about to take the picture, the subject gets up to look at the camera more closely. The frustrated photographer soon becomes quite impatient.
- Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.
- See Dr. Colton administering "laughing gas" to a patient and then pulling a tooth.
- A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.
- A compilation of eight earlier films, also from 1896, that chronicle the adventure of Rip van Winkle. Rip encounters dwarf-like mountain-dwellers, gets drunk with them and awakes after twenty years, having significantly aged.
- A household gardener is outside watering the garden. Unknown to him, the son of another servant sneaks up behind him and steps on the hose, stopping the flow of water. The befuddled gardener doesn't know what happened to the water flow, putting the hose nozzle up to his face to investigate. The boy then steps off the hose, resulting in the gardener getting sprayed in the face with water. The boy ends up getting his comeuppance.
- Little is known about this lost film, other than its comedic intent.
- A woman sitting on a bench is approached by a soldier. Momentarily, she refuses his advances, but in no time at all, they are kissing each other passionately.
- "A colored woman washing a little pickaninny. Very funny, and especially pleasing to children."
- A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is prohibited.
- "Depicts the patient fisherman, sitting on the end of a plank, waiting for a bite. Practical joker comes along and removes stone from other end of plank."
- A tramp steals a housewife's pie, and is pursued by her bulldog, which latches onto his rear as he scrambles over a fence.
- Two men have a contest to see which one can be the first to eat a large slice of watermelon.
- One of the prettiest pictures of child life we have yet offered. Two pretty children are seated in their high chairs playing "Tea Party" with their dishes arranged about them. They become engaged in a dispute over the possession of a piece of cake and one of them cries, giving the most perfect and child-like facial expressions we have yet had the pleasure of seeing.
- A woman is washing an infant child. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming water.
- This lost film presumably features a person watering flowers to comedic effect. This film is believed to have imitated the Louis and Auguste Lumière film "L'arroseur arrose", which survives.
- A pair of bucolic lovers discovered by the wrathful father, who teaches the gallant a lesson.
- Lost film that is actually an animated photo-painting in which strips of images create approximately 15 minutes using 500 images per title. This short film is a stage adaption of the folk hero William Tell.
- Brighton. Landing of party from small boat with comic incidents.
- Husband comes home late and wakes the wife.
- Ladies and gentlemen have tea and one upsets table.
- This is a typical Irish argument in which a can of beer, clay pipes and two sons of Erin form the principal parts.
- Boy tricks gardener by stepping off the hose, then releasing water.
- "Shows papa walking the floor with a crying baby in his arms. An exceedingly laughable subject."
- Severel young men race each other, bound to the neck in sacks. There are several falls and many comical antics while a cheering audience watches them.
- "O'Brien and Havel, the well-known vaudeville team, in one of their most humorous sketches."
- A lady watering the garden with a hose, a mischievous boy stops the flow of water until she looks for the cause, when he permits the water to flow, resulting in the lady taking an unexpected bath. The father then appears and chastises the youthful culprit. One of the best films ever made.
- Two men get into a fight over a card game.
- "Return of the clubman after a big time at the club. His efforts to undress and get into bed are very laughable."
- Children fight with pillows.
- Pat ascends a ladder with a hod of bricks. Is approached by a Populist politician. Shows his displeasures by dropping bricks on the politician.