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- 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 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 man dreams he is flirting with an attractive young lady, then he wakes up in bed next to his wife.
- A boy looks through glasses at various objects, seen magnified.
- A child-crossing sweeper dies in the snow.
- A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.
- Smith casts his wife as a sluttish housewife who is mutilated by lighting her oven with paraffin.
- A stunt cyclist is seen jumping off Brighton Pier, from multiple angles and in multiple directions(!) Some more mundane high-diving footage follows, in the same style.
- Various scenes in colour including a remake of Scandal Over the Teacups (1900).
- A series of shots of activities along the sea front at Brighton southern England. The film is historically important for being the first commercially produced film in natural colour, using director George Albert Smith's patented Kinemacolor process
- In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.
- The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
- Jane is given a bracelet by an elderly admirer. He is in league with Cleaver, a suave crook, and the two plan to use Jane and the bracelet to smuggle diamonds into England.
- Harry Flakers is a pools winner who is targeted by a forger.
- A short musical featurette set in a nightclub combining variety acts with linking comedy sketches written by Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan.
- A fisherman cannot make a decent living from his trawler so he decides to turn his hand to smuggling.
- Two British couples pit their vintage automobiles against each other in an exciting cross-country race.
- Small-time Soho hustler gets caught up in the murder of an ex-girl friend, evades the police and finally helps them to corner the real murderer.
- Insurance investigator Clifford Evans, investigates murderer on Death Row, insured by his company.
- A London copper and his family on holiday, a Yank gangster/crooner, a junior journalist, a waxworks horror museum owner and his unfaithful dolly bird wife congregate on Brighton's Palace Pier for blackmail and murder.
- A successful author of crime stories (Clifford Evans) is tricked by his unfaithful wife's murderer (John Witty) into giving advice on the disposal of the body, with dire consequences.
- In 1796, Captain George Bryan "Beau" Brummell of the 10th Royal Hussars Regiment offends the Prince of Wales with his straightforward outspokenness and gets fired from the Army but is chosen as the Prince's personal advisor.
- Flirtatious mermaid Miranda (Glynis Johns) swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on vacation. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
- Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property developer (boo hiss!) who is also the chairman of the orphanage board wants to close the orphanage and build a factory on the site. The children are sent to Brighton for the day and Norman is very excited because he's "never seen the sea". When they get back, they discover the plan to close the orphanage and must decide what to do.
- The Joneses compete for a cottage offered by a British lord to the couple with the most grandchildren.
- Diamond smuggling, and the disappearance of the mother of several children, in the seaside resort of Brighton after World War II.
- Edward "Teddy" Bare is a delusional psychotic with a lust for wealth, older women and murder. Having committed what he thinks is the perfect murder of his elderly wife; Teddy sets his sights on new targets when her fortune goes elsewhere.
- A professional race car driver marries a wealthy woman for her money, and then plans to murder her.
- John Preston meets Sally who agrees to marry him. Then, Preston begins to have dreams about Sylvia, a woman from his past, who comes to Deanbridge to blackmail him. In his dream, Preston strangles. He seeks help from Doctor Walton.
- About an inefficient grocer's boy and his passion for eating
- A group of kids face the closure of their Brighton playground but fight back to reclaim it.
- 1955. Directed by Terence Fisher and starring Wayne Morris, Sandra Dorne and Patrick Holt. Set in London's Soho, a gang of ruthless safe-crackers plan their next robbery.
- Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.
- An adulterous husband plans to kill his invalid wife. He thinks that he has the perfect alibi, but an alert detective unravels his story.
- A group of Polish fighters of the Polish resistance movement go on a mission to destroy the German V-1 'Flying Bomb' at Peenemünde and cripple the German war effort during World War II.
- A British commentary focusing on the lush life of teenagers in Brighton, Northampton and London 1960.