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- An unemployed man lives with a family in a London slum area during the great depression. He applies for means-tested benefits and is refused. He steals a loaf of bread, is chased and arrested. In court the magistrate first hears the case of a group of middle class youths who have upturned a trader's cart - the case is discharged. The unemployed bread thief is convicted. The film ends urging mass civil protest.
- The 1640s, the time of the English Civil War. Colonel Beverley, a Royalist, squire of Arnwood and High Keeper of the New Forest, leaves to join the King's army. He dies at the Battle of Naseby, leaving his two sons and two daughters in the care of their Aunt Judith. A troop of Parliamentary soldiers and their Leveller preacher, Abel Corbould, come to Arnwood. The four Beverley children are smuggled out of Arnwood, taken to Jacob Armitage, a royalist forester's home in the forest and hidden there. The children encounter various adventures, become involved with the family of Parliament's new Intendant of the New Forest, Heatherstone, and eventually join a conspiracy to help King Charles, who has escaped from captivity.
- Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo (Connolly), a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise. JoJo learns of his peril and begins an exercise in risk management.
- Luncheon at a respectable restaurant. A diner damages a tooth. In intense pain, he telephones his dentist's surgery. He rushes there by taxi, as fast as the London traffic will permit. Arriving at the surgery, he is left in pain in the waiting room. He is treated with extensive drill work, he suffers, he recuperates. The operation to save the tooth has failed. Work must begin again, suffering recommences...
- Bob, a railroad engineer on his final trip before retiring, deals with suspicions about his wife and fireman while transporting peculiar passengers. Unanticipated occurrences lead to unforeseen character interactions and resolutions.
- An expedition leaves for the Amazon to prove the existence of dinosaurs.
- With the screen split asymmetrically, one part in positive, the other negative, the film documents the evolution of simple celled organic forms into chains of cells then more complex images from tribal cultures and contemporary modernist concepts. The images react, interpenetrate, perhaps attack, absorb and separate, until a final symbiosis (or redemption?) is achieved.