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- A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it.
- Smith casts his wife as a sluttish housewife who is mutilated by lighting her oven with paraffin.
- A boy looks through glasses at various objects, seen magnified.
- A girl gives a spoonful of medicine to a kitten.
- 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.
- An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that he focuses on the ankle of a young woman who is a short distance away. Her husband catches the gent looking. What will the two men now do?
- A cleverly conceived picture of a little boy and girl with building blocks. The little girl has erected a pretty structure, which the boy proceeds to demolish with pokes of his fingers. When the demolition of the house is completed, the film is shown in reverse, and the little building comes back to its original form in a most marvellous manner.
- The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's over-matched. What will become of the mission, its defenders, and its occupants?
- A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading glass. He suddenly notices that the cheese is a little out of the ordinary, and examines it with his glass. To his horror, he finds it to be alive with mites, and, in disgust, leaves the table. Hundreds of mites resembling crabs are seen scurrying in all directions. A wonderful picture and a subject hitherto unthought of in animated photography.
- "Percy Smith (1880-1944) was world famous as a photographer of plant life. Probably the first British example of time-lapse photography as applied to the growth of plants." Montly Film Bulletin, November 1955
- An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
- A thief jumps a fence and removes the shutter from a house. He enters, but a lad who's witnessed the crime runs off to hail the coppers.
- A beetle is possessed by the soul of an ancient Egyptian princess, who is determined to get her revenge on a member of the British Parliament.
- Eight scenes: Girl dreams of Dick Whittington, Robinson Crusoe, Forty Thieves, Aladdin, Cinderella, Bluebeard and Red Riding Hood.
- A train is leaving a railway station at the outskirts of Jerusalem. From the very end of the train a barren, rocky landscape is seen, and some ruins of very old buildings,. Five men walk along the track, tipping their hats when the train departs. When it approaches the station building more people are seen, people of different ethnicity and religion. Some men wear fezzes on their heads and canes in their hands. A Franciscan monk comes walking in the middle of a mixed group of people. The platform outside the station is crowded with people waiting for the next train. Among them is a man with a sword at his side. The big windows of the station are covered with shutters. After the station the train passes a long fence, enclosing a lumberyard.
- A devil's tricks reform an ill-tempered king.
- Shipwreck scene from 'His Majesty's Theatre' production.
- Merchants hire a foreign criminal to kidnap a scientist for the secret of manufacturing diamonds.
- The streets of the important city of Bombay, which is first visited, present a scene of bustle and activity unexpected in such a hot climate. Natives in simple costumes are busily engaged in their various occupations, but we do not realize what energy the Hindu is capable of until we see him, with scores of his fellows, getting coal for the big liners in Bombay harbor. His agility is such that he can trot up a steep, narrow plank with a huge basket full of coal on his head. Delhi, one of the religious centers of India, and a town redolent with memories of the Mutiny, presents a remarkable contrast to Bombay. Its great temple, the Jumla Masjid, is thronged with devout worshipers, and is a wonderful example of the strength and solidity of eastern architecture. Its somber dignity, and the reverent crowds kneeling in its courts form a fitting conclusion to the picture.
- A tramp steals a bicycle and is chase by a PC and a crowd.
- An artist draws a coster couple who come to life and dance a cakewalk.
- A Mandarin and a geisha girl perform tricks with a magic fan.
- A man dreams he is flirting with an attractive young lady, then he wakes up in bed next to his wife.
- A film crew records the sights and sounds of the Nile River, circa 1911. One of the first experiments of colorized films, utilizing Kinemacolor.
- A jealous doctor leaves his wife but returns in time to save her life.
- A mischievous errand boy, sent out on a delivery, causes havoc in the streets of Hove. When he arrives back at the shop, he finds all his furious victims are already there complaining to the grocer -- and the chase is on!
- 20 scenes: The birth, life, marriage and death of Hiawatha.
- Scissors cut out shapes which come to life.
- A wife catches her husband flirting and throws him into a pond.
- Robert, the son of a wealthy factory owner, falls in love with Lillian, one of his father's employees. His parents, having already chosen a wife for him from among their circle of wealthy acquaintances, object to an alliance with the poor girl. Robert, however, marries Lillian and is driven from home. Through his mother's help Robert is enabled to establish a private fortune, while his father suffers greatly of lonesomeness, until an accidental meeting leads to reconciliation.
- The Competing Racing Cars and their Drivers, photographed during the weighing-in of the motors at Hamburg, Germany. In 21 pictures, showing all the famous motor drivers and the racing cars which entered into this historical contest.
- A mischievous four-year-old girl tricks a tramp, policeman and doctor.
- A most interesting picture, showing the motor car pageant in Spain anterior to the Royal Wedding. Two hundred cars of every variety and make-though the majority were magnificent, and a great many of them 60 h.p. Mercedes-present an extraordinary animated scene. The cars are filled with ladies who, undeterred by the dust, have donned their best. Every car carries the Union Jack and the Spanish Ensign, and in most cases hundreds of these tiny emblems are stuck in lamps and bonnets, Huge models of the arms of England, too, cover the backs of many of the cars. "King Alfonso, himself an enthusiastic motorist, took his part in the procession, his ear flying the purple flag of Castile. The picture shows his arrival at El Pardo, with the Princess Ena standing on the balcony, saluting His Majesty by waving her handkerchief: Romeo and Juliet modernized.
- Mysterious and unaccountable behavior of a bowling ball which, missing its mark, refuses to stop even within a reasonable distance, and leads the amazed players on a long and merry chase before its recapture is affected. An abundance of comic incident and exciting adventure from beginning to end. The ball magically climbs walls and buildings, runs along open country muds and through city streets, crosses bridges and fields, and finally, in a most picturesque portion of a huge woods it falls into a wonderfully beautiful stream, in which it is captured and taken in triumph to the village club, where it is chained to avoid future flight.
- 1. Borneo [people] on the war path - crossing a stream. 2. Natives in Pampas grass 3. A native combat with club and shield. 4. The "Urbanora" expedition with native carriers penetrating the jungle. 5. A typical "up country" mango swamp. 6. Panorama along the Padas River. 7. Native boys bathing (Canoe upset). 8. The rapids of the Padas River. 9. Working manganese rocks in the Balaigong Gorge 10. The gigantic ferns on the river banks 11. Natives climbing coconut palms. 12. Tapping the rubber trees 13. First trading of natives with the white man.
- A boy photographs a married angler flirting with a girl.
- A picture true to life, and a most excellent subject. Poor old grandma is seated in her chair, vainly attempting to engage a thread in the eye of the needle. The facial contortions that are engaged in are ludicrous to say the least. The needle is finally threaded, and the happy contented look that comes over the face of grandma is a most pleasing ending of the picture.
- Showing drills and sport of the French ''Handy Man" on board ship.
- An instructive picture of bee life showing the agitation of the bees and how they rush in and out of the hive before they quit in swarm, to assure themselves that all is right.
- A man drops a string of wet cotton onto a photographic plate, and it proceeds to create designs and drawings, rather like an ancient Etch-a-Sketch.