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- 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.
- A team of three cowboys brand calves that have been roped by riders.
- An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
- A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- A Martian visits a selfish man in order to make him change his ways.
- 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.
- A journey towards the Sun and under the sea on a train that becomes a submarine, which leads passengers to the starting point, the Incoherent Geographic Institute.
- A compilation of three short trick films by Georges Méliès: The Music Lover (1903) (The Melomaniac aka The Music Lover)(1903), The Monster (1903) (The Monster) (1903) and Decapitation in Turkey (1904) (The Terrible Turkish Executioner) (1904).
- Lost film that is considered the first adaption of Jules Verne's 1869 novel by pioneer cinematographer Wallace McCutcheon Sr. - the actual existence of this film is highly debated as there is no proof that it was ever made.
- A British trick film in which a motorist ends up driving around the rings of Saturn.
- As the clock strikes twelve, a weary astronomer attempts to answer the impertinent enquiries of his young students by scrutinising an impending lunar eclipse, as an effeminate and delicate moon caresses the mighty sun's hungry cosmic rays.
- Undersea adventures in a submarine by a dreaming fisherman who encounters mystical underwater creatures at odds with him. A parody on Jules Verne's novel.
- Patients behave like apes after being given monkey-gland injections.
- Proving adept at every possible camera trick, Segundo de Chomón was brought by Charles Pathé to his studio at Vincennes, near Paris, to make trick films in imitation of Jules Verne (such as this one, inspired by A Trip to the Moon (1902)).
- An eccentric photographer demonstrates the wonders of technology to a couple who want to be photographed by his innovative wireless procedure that accents one's inner personality. Are they prepared for the harsh truth of the camera's eye?
- An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
- A mysterious metal box is bequeathed to Leo, a young Englishman, to be opened on his twenty-fifth birthday. It is opened in the presence of his guardian, and his servant. They find an Egyptian tablet 2,000 years old. The guardian, a linguist, interprets it. It tells how, 2,000 years before, an Egyptian princess and her husband, traveling in Africa, meet a mysterious woman, a queen, called "She," with power over Life and Death. "She" falls in love with the prince, and, in jealous fury, kills him. "She" sends the princess out of the country. "She" has the body entombed to await his reincarnation. The princess leaves an account of her adventure on a tablet; bequeaths it to her descendants, that one may some day find "She," wrest the secret from her, and avenge the ancient wrong. Leo determines to seek "She." The three reach Africa, where they are met by men from "She," who has seen their arrival, in a vision. While awaiting the chief's return, Leo is kissed by Ustane, a beautiful maiden, and she thereby becomes his wife. The Englishmen are set upon by the natives and only saved by the chief's arrival. He conducts them to "She," who finds in Leo the reincarnation of the prince. Leo is overcome by the wondrous beauty of "She." "She" prevails on Leo to bathe in the "Pillar of Life." a mysterious fire, but he hesitates and "She" to encourage him enters the flame, becomes young and radiant, but gradually grows old before his eyes until her form is entirely consumed.
- A man behaves like a monkey after its brain is transplanted into him.
- A man buys the novel The Invisible Man by "G.H. Wells" at a bookshop, and in it finds the recipe for Wells' invisibility potion. Then the opportunity makes the thief.
- In a medieval palace, an astronomer with a telescope shows the king.
- An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
- A scientist discovers reverse gravity and goes to Mars in the process.
- An Earth astronomer meets a Martian astronomer via their telescopes. They agree to meet on the moon for a wedding ceremony.
- The first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.
- Flying pirates torpedo a liner then travel under the sea to salvage bullion.
- In the year 2000, police officers use an airship to look out for crimes, then capture the perpetrators using giant clamps to hoist them aboard.
- Pirates in an airship bomb a bullion ship and kidnap a girl.
- A robot chauffeur takes a newly married couple on their honeymoon to the planet Saturn and then on a trip under the sea.
- (Part One) The first scene shows us the outer court of the temple in Egypt, in the year 350 B.C. Here Amenartas, the Pharaoh's daughter, waits to meet her love, Kallikrates. He has just taken the vows, becoming a Priest of Isis. She urges him to renounce these vows and flee with her from Egypt. We next see them during the sacrificial ceremony in the temple. The young priest goes about his sacred office constantly feeling the eyes of the woman he loves upon him. At the close of the ceremony he can resist her appeal no longer and they make their escape. They leave the city behind them, and on the desert meet some friendly Arabs. The young priest is weak from fasting, and his wife secures for him the camel owned by an Arab chief, so that they may continue their journey. They thank their Arab friends, leave them, and on foot make their way to the water's edge. After traveling "twice twelve moons" they land with their infant son on the coast of Africa, near a rocky precipice, known as the Negro's Head. In her cave in the hollow mountain, "SHE," the white witch of Africa, who has learned the secret of eternal youth, sees the approach of the Egyptian, by her magic power. "SHE" determines that he is the perfect man, that "SHE" will have him bathe with her in the fires of eternal youth, and together they will rule the world. "SHE" summons him. In his camp in the desert the messengers of "SHE" find Kallikrates, his wife and child, and bring them before "SHE." "SHE" shows the Egyptian the fires of eternal youth and offers him her love, but when he remains true to the love of his wife, "SHE" strikes him dead. His wife, Amenartas escapes with her child. At the riverbank, the wife embarks with her child, whom she calls Tisisthanes. She swears that this child shall return and avenge his father's death, or if not he, his male descendants. Over the smoldering fires of eternal strife "SHE" tries in vain to restore the vital spark to the body of the man she loved. Unable to give her loved one life, "SHE" has his body mummified by a marvelous process, which makes him look as though he did but sleep. Beside her dead love, "SHE" weeps and prays, that though "SHE" cannot restore him to life, some day, though it be in the remote centuries to come, her love will be reincarnated, and return to claim her. (Part Two) We now see a room in England, in the year 1885 A.D. Holly, an Englishman, whose face is so ugly that it has won him the appellation of "the monster," receives, by the will of his friend, the fortunes and custody of that friend's son, Leo Vincent. This child is the direct descendant of the Priest of Isis, whom "SHE" destroyed centuries before. With the child, is sent a letter of instructions and an antique chest. The letter explains that Leo is to open the chest on his twenty-fifth birthday and follow the instructions it contains. Through the ages '"SHE" waits beside the body of her dead love, still praying for his reincarnation and return. On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo opens the chest and finds in it the story of his ancient ancestor and the information that although many men of his family had spent their lives in seeking "SHE." None of them had ever found her. Leo also finds instructions to carry out the work, to seek "SHE," learn her secret of eternal youth, and then destroy her. Leo determines to set out on the mission. Leo and his guardian, Holly, approach the shores of Africa, and note the strange rock, the Negro's Head. "SHE," in her cave, sees in a vision, Leo approaching. He strongly resembles his ancient ancestor, and "SHE" firmly believes he is the reincarnation of her ancient lover. "SHE" sends for him. Through rocky caverns Leo's boat glides up the river toward the hollow mountain. At an ancient landing place, now fallen into ruins, Leo's boat is stopped by a tribe of natives, who pay allegiance to "SHE." They blindfold Leo and Holly and lead them to the cave of "SHE." "SHE" welcomes Leo as her lost love. He tells her he has come to destroy her, to revenge the death of his ancestor. "SHE" gives him the knife from her own girdle and. baring her bosom, bids him strike. Before her unveiled beauty, Leo is powerless to destroy her. "SHE" then bids him follow her and leads them through a strange passage. In a rocky cavern "SHE" shows Leo the mummy of his ancient ancestor, and so like is it to the young Englishman, that he feels he is gazing upon himself. "SHE" then destroys the mummy as she feels she has found her living love. "SHE" leads Holly and Leo over a rocky precipice to the cave containing the "fires of eternal youth." "SHE" begs Leo to step into the flame so that he, too, will never die. Leo fears to take the step. To encourage him "SHE" steps first into the flames. The quality of the fire has changed in the centuries since "SHE" last bathed in them. "SHE" suddenly shrivels up before the eyes of the astonished men. "SHE" grows suddenly old, until she resembles an ape. With outstretched arms, and a cry to Leo not to forget her, "SHE" dies. Holly and Leo, half crazed with the terrible sight they have witnessed, find their way back to the native village. They are directed, by an overland route, as to how they can leave the country and they do so. Safely returned to England, Leo, whose golden hair has been turned white from his horrible experience, destroys all records of "SHE," the mysterious. His family has been avenged.
- The body of a cook is brought to life by an electrician through the use of electrodes.
- An injection that can freeze cattle solid for later thawing is prepared by a woman's husband and nephew to be used on her. At her son-in-law's warning, she replaces the fluid with tap water and accepts the injection, faking the freezing, then tormenting them as a "ghost."
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- Aboard the futuristic flying machine of his own invention, Professor Mabouloff and his team of intercultural explorers set off on yet another impossible expedition to North Pole's vast landscapes. What wonders await the bold adventurers?
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- A Martian is sentenced to visit Earth to cure a selfish man.
- A professor of psychology succeeds in photographing members of the spirit world with a special apparatus he has invented.
- Episode 2: "Zingo and the White Elephant" Zingo and his wife, Sari, who are returning from their adventures in Mexico, when Zingo learns from his newspaper that the Royal Elephant of Siam has been stolen and for whose return a large reward will be paid. Not content with settling down to a quiet domestic life, he persuades Sari and his good crew to aid him in finding this white elephant. In the Royal Square of the Capitol of Siam, he reviews the troops which are all comprised of women, which is the custom there. The Prime Minister bids Zingo and his men to visit the Royal Harem. Here they are captured by the troops and are about to be tortured to death when Sari, disguised as a colonel in the army, aids them in escaping. They find the province of Chokuff where the white elephant has been secreted, and catching the Prince making love to Sari, they demand the white elephant. He promises, but traps them all in his dungeon. They are all, but Zingo, placed in barrels with their heads protruding. Zingo files away the bars of his cage, and rolls the barrels by the guards, who are in a stupor from opium smoking. He swims down the river, towing his crew in the barrels. After a fierce encounter with the Prince of Chokuff's army, he attacks the Royal barge in the Blud River, and after a bitter struggle in which he disposes of the entire crew by throwing them overboard, he captures the white elephant and recovers his faithful Sari. He returns the sacred elephant to the King of Siam, and after a big reception by royalty and the populace, Zingo is awarded rich treasures for his noble work. Episode 3: "Zingo in Africa" After returning from Asia with his jolly band of tars, laden with gold and precious stones as a reward for his clever work in recovering the Sacred White Elephant of Siam, Zingo thought he would never again feel the call of the sea, and he didn't for several months. But the wanderlust fever soon returned, and taking his wife as his sole companion, he set out for the wilds of Africa in search of fresh adventures. From this point on, let us follow Zingo down the Nile, and record his hairbreadth escapes. Selecting a likely spot, Zingo and Sari, his wife, make camp. Hearing piercing shrieks just back of their tent, they don bear skins and hasten to the spot in time to prevent the execution of two beautiful native girls by a band of savages. The two girls now become members of Zingo's party, happy to serve their gallant protector. The next day Zingo puts on his armored hunting suit to battle with hungry lions, who have been prowling about the camp. After an hour's terrific struggle with a pair of lions, Zingo returns to find his party gone, and many evidences of a struggle. Suspecting that they have been kidnapped by roving gorillas, Zingo sets off through the forest and eventually comes to the bottom of a large tree sheltering the crudely made gorilla nest. Having a smattering of monkey chatter, he quickly gains an entrance to the nest, and there discovers his wife and the girls more frightened than harmed. The good-natured gorillas listen attentively while Zingo explains that they must proceed up the Nile in their power boat, and they bid the party an affectionate farewell. During an inspection of the Pyramids, Zingo and his party encounter some knavish artists, who drug him and make love to Sari and the native girls. Zingo is boxed up and sold to a London professor as a rare specimen, and does not regain his senses until weeks later. After startling the assembled professors out of their wits, he charters an aeroplane and flies back to Egypt overnight in time to punish the cringing artists and save Sari and her servants from further insult. Then with a last fond look down the Nile River, Zingo and his party board the aeroplane and sail back to Paris. Episode 4: "Zingo's War in the Clouds" Zingo, while working and studying over the prospectus of the Eldorado Mine in his library in Paris, is visited by his faithful crew, who are restless from lying in port and beg of him to put to sea in search of new adventures. Zingo agrees to their proposal, and decides to submit a gigantic scheme to the Eldorado Directorate for working their mine. Arriving in Mexico, he finds the mine operators are entertaining a scheme presented to them by one, Fileas Fogg. Zingo exposes Fogg's crookedness and is awarded the contract for working the mine. In order to study the country around the mines, Zingo and his wife, Sari, erect huts in a nearby river to live in. Fogg, enraged at Zingo for exposing him, with the aid of a savage Indian tribe, attacks Zingo in his river home, and after a thrilling encounter, captures Zingo and Sari. They are bound hand and foot and told they are to be executed the next morning. A pretty Indian girl sets Zingo free in the night, and rides off with him. Zingo calls on the Federal army and is honored by being given the rank of commanding officer, After reviewing his troops and submarine guards. Zingo attacks Fogg's troops, who use chloroform bombs and a special pneumatic sucker to repel his army. Zingo's submarine troops attack Fogg's deep water divers and after a severe encounter in the depths, Zingo's men are victorious. Vanquished under the sea, Fogg takes refuge in a huge motor balloon with Sari still in his power. After a most thrilling battle in which a dozen types of balloons are used, Zingo's dirigible manages to catch Fogg, and after transferring Sari, he cuts the ropes suspending the basket from the bag, and Fogg drops into eternity. Zingo sights his yacht directly below him and by lowering a rope and making it fast to the mast, they all descend and are joyously received by the crew. Zingo promises all to return home after settling up his business affairs in Mexico.
- Michael McCue is a billiard fiend. He arrives home nicely intoxicated and is greeted by a shower of knives, forks and plates, which he successfully dodges. The door is shut on him. He falls asleep on the sofa in the hall and has a most beautiful dream. He is back in the billiard parlor. He takes a shot at a ball and it turns into a turnip. He tries again and a picture of his wife looms up. Once more he shoots and instead of hitting the ball, smashes a bottle of whiskey. His friends chase him out. He enters a saloon. Still carrying his beloved cue, he attempts to shoot an apple off a friend's head; immediately a profuse growth of hair appears. He becomes hungry and enters a restaurant, accompanied by the cue. Scolded by the waitress, he shoots an apple in her mouth and she is unable to close it. The chef cuts the apple piece by piece, almost slicing her mouth off. An old maid above is enjoying a foot bath. He takes a shot at a picture on the wall and it moves forward. He shoots at it again and sticks the cue through the foot-tub. This awakens him and he is brought inside by his wife, sorry for her harsh treatment.
- Two members of the Never-Drop Aero Club claim that they can reach the moon by the aeroplane. They get an astronomer to get his telescope out and see how the conditions are on the moon. He comes on with a big telescope and looks through it, finds everything in fine condition from earth to moon, so the party start out. As they rise and turn upside down then right side up, they start on their journey to the moon. They pass over a busy city, knocking down buildings and chimneys. After passing over the city they come in contact with the planet Saturn. Bump it, encircle it, and then on their way to the moon they ride through the air and see an old man coming out of the planet Mars. The anchor on the aeroplane accidentally catches the old man by the neck and carries him off. The old man tries to get away, and he sees Halley's comet coming along and he grabs hold of the tail of the comet and goes away. One of the men in the aeroplane sees him and takes out a lasso. With a couple of swings he catches the old man around the neck and drags him behind. At last the moon is reached. The man in the moon opens his mouth and they all go in. The party drop from top of the moon all in a heap. They get up, look around and a large bird comes in and lays an egg larger than itself and flies off. The travelers put the egg on a fire, which is burning nearby. The egg cracks and a lot of little birds are hatched. Suddenly a strange animal comes on the scene and eats the little birds one by one. The animal fills up and bursts. Another enormous crazy-looking animal comes out of the cave and chases the men off the moon into the sea.
- Two "Knights of the Road" arrive in town, and, while making a survey of the surroundings, discover Dr. Speed experimenting with his radium. They decide it would be of great use as well as amusement to them, so while Dr. Speed is gloating over his wonderful discovery they steal his formula and start in to apply it to everyone they meet. During their exploits they find a paperhanger who is about to decorate a home, and decide he shall become inoculated and sent on his way. They then present themselves as paperhangers and start to decorate in their way. In the meantime Dr. Speed discovers the loss of his secret and after first notifying the police, he hastens out with an antidote to relieve those who have come in contact with his speed radium. Eventually they locate the miscreants who pay for their little joke in many ways.
- A primitive tribe are attacked by apemen and menaced by various prehistoric monsters.
- Vain and ashamed of their poverty, Sylvia Gray, wife of unsuccessful playwright Henry Gray, elopes with Lennox, a wealthy young man, taking her daughter "Silvery" with her. The child is later taken away by Margy, an old servant, and brought up in another city. Lennox deserts Sylvia and she goes partly insane, finally killing him. Her daughter "Silvery" becomes an artist's model and falls in love with Vanveldt, her employer. Meeting Frankenstein, a hypnotist, whose wife Vivette is intensely jealous of him, Silvery falls under his influence. Meanwhile, Sylvia returns to Gray and finds he has become blind, with no recollection of the past. She uses her utmost endeavors to make reparation for the past in caring for him, and gradually his memory returns. He remembers he has received a large sum of money for one of his plays and hidden it. They find it and Frankenstein, who learns of the treasure's recovery, forces "Silvery" while under his power, to rob the old man. She is about to stab Gray when Frankenstein is killed by Vivette; the spell is broken and all ends happily in the betrothal of Silvery and Vanveldt and the reunion of Mr. Gray and Sylvia, who remorsefully and penitently admits the justice of all her punishment and determines that the past shall be forgotten in the happiness of the future.
- Pimple poses as a crook's wife and borrows children to extort a cheque from his rich relations.
- A scientist tries to transfer the personality of a man into his mentally retarded son.
- With the help of futuristic technical inventions, a private detective investigates a bizarre murder case involving mysterious messages delivered in a small black box by the killer.
- After many years of hard labor and deep study, Coxheim, an inventor of renown and master of negative electricity, succeeds in inventing an electrical device that resists gravitation. His son Willard and daughter Laline, both expert aviators, have rendered their father valuable assistance in perfecting his invention through their knowledge of air currents. Laline suggests to her father that it be called the contragrav, that is, contrary to gravitation. Among the invited guests at the demonstration for government officials is a person named Laloud, who, unknown to the officials and the inventor, increases his income by selling government secrets to the highest bidder Laloud visits the agent of a foreign government and, for a consideration, informs him of the existence of the contragrav. Realizing the possibilities and value of such a device, the foreign agent loses no time in laying plans to obtain possession of the contragrav. Conferring with his confederate, it is decided to have Olga Belgram obtain the device. She contrives to get into the inventor's home by sending her machine over an embankment into the water below and by deftly leaping from the machine just as it is about to plunge over the precipice. Fortunately, she lands right at the feet of Laline, who, thinking her seriously injured, takes her into her mother's house. Olga's clever ruse enables her to ascertain the hiding place of the coveted invention more quickly and easily than she had hoped. She assures Laline that she feels no ill effects from her fall, and not long thereafter reaches the foreign agent's office with the desired information. Equipped with this information, the agent's confederates manage to steal the contragrav. With the prized invention in their possession, they hurry to a suburban villa to study its construction and duplicate it if possible. Upon discovering the theft, not wishing to make known to the public the loss of so valuable an invention, Coxheim engages private detectives. Upon questioning the inventor and his household, the detectives learn of Olga's visit. Laline, feeling that she is partly responsible for the disappearance of the invention, determines to do all she can to restore it to her father. By adroit maneuvering, she learns of Olga's visit to the suburban villa, and with her brother makes a flight in their aeroplane. They land almost at the door of the villa, offering as an excuse that they have run out of gas. A servant admits them to the house, where they meet. Olga, believing Olga and the servant are alone in the house, Laline straightway accuses her of the theft of the contragrav and demands to know its whereabouts. Olga presses a button, which summons the aid of the servant and a confederate. A light ensues in which Willard and his sister overpower Olga and her confederates, secure the contragrav and succeeds in reaching their aeroplane. Just as they begin to make their flight. Olga's confederate, also an aviator, hastens to his machine, places some bombs in it and starts after Willard and Laline. A lively chase through the air ensues. Realizing that he is being overtaken, Willard advises his sister to buckle on the contragrav and jump from the aeroplane, which she does and by manipulating the different currents of negative electricity, she floats through the air, landing safely on a hilltop. The foreigner pursues Willard, and just as he sails immediately over him, he drops a bomb which explodes near Willard's machine, completely destroying it, and killing Willard. Laline succeeds in reaching her home with the contragrav, and hurriedly explains her experiences to the detectives, who return with him to the villa. The villa is almost completely destroyed before Olga and her confederate are overpowered and made to suffer for their crime.
- Professor Schultz invents a mechanical life-sized doll. By pressing the right button on its back it will dance or sing. Now little Lillian, the spoilt daughter of Heinie Gotrocks, reads a newspaper account of Prof. Schultz's invention. She will not let up on dad until he promises to buy this mechanical doll for her nursery. The family go to inspect the toy, and Gotrocks promises Prof. Schultz $20,000 for his invention, to be paid when delivered. Gotrocks and his family depart. Prof. Schultz and his helper, all flustered at the prospect of securing the $20,000, are carefully packing the big doll when the janitor, cleaning the toy shop, carelessly upsets the doll box and puts the manikin out of business. Schultz and his helper are enraged. Something must be done, or the twenty thousand is lost. They then notice that the offending janitor is exactly the same size as the injured manikin. They force him to imitate the doll and don its costume. He rebels to no purpose. They promise to relieve him as soon as the doll is repaired and carry him in the doll's place to the home of Gotrocks. Little Lillian is more than delighted with her new possession. The janitor's imitations of the actions of the real doll get by. It was all very fine at first, but as time passed, it ceased to be a joke. He was made to perform day and night at little Lillian's parties, and his stomach grew more and more empty. His frantic appeals over the telephone to Prof. Schultz only brought him the advice to stay on just a little longer as repairs were being rushed on the real doll. Now, Gotrock's butler had caught the janitor off his guard several times and had a well-founded suspicion that the supposed manikin was a fake. In fact, later events proved to him he was certainly right. The butler's endeavor to prove to Gotrocks got him "in bad," however, for Prof. Schultz arrived in the nick of time with the real mechanical doll, thereby allowing the mighty thankful janitor not only to escape his dreadful position but to get back on the butler for the indignities suffered at the latter's hands. When Gotrocks and his family are shown the mechanical doll is no fake, they put down the recent escapades of the janitor to the fact that the twenty thousand dollar doll must have slipped a cog.