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- The capers of an anthropomorphic orange and his friends annoying the heck out of the audience.
- A rhythmically edited alphabet composed of street and shop signs shot in New York City and other elements is gradually replaced by repeated seemingly abstract shots in this influential structuralist film.
- As an elegant maestro of mirage and delusion drapes his beautiful female assistant with a gauzy textile, much to our amazement, the lady vanishes into thin air.
- In this fantastic scene, a man who is eager to retire has a difficult time finding peace, as his nocturnal illusions come to life out of thin air.
- 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.
- The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman.
- In what is considered to be the first remake in the history of cinema, the grand French director, Georges Méliès, directs his very first short film, influenced by the Lumière Brothers' original story in "Partie d'écarté (1896)".
- Dramatized re-enactments of the events of the Dreyfus-affair from 1894 to 1899.
- Two thieves, Robert Macaire and Bertrand, are eating at an outdoor restaurant, when they find themselves left alone. So, spying their chance, they make off with everything on the table. The waitress, discovering the theft, gives the alarm and four policemen begin following the thieves. Robert Macaire and Bertrand meanwhile rob a bank and steal several costumes to disguise themselves as tourists. They leave their clothes in a garden and embark onto a train, the police behind them. They get off at the station, and an attendant tells the police which way they when the police arrive. Entering a town, an earthquake hits and the thieves fly through the air. They land and the police are again on their trail. To hide themselves Macaire and Bertrand must disclose themselves in a barn. The police soon discover their abode and shoot the thieves down, but Robert Macaire and Bertrand get up and escape after the police turn their backs. And, jumping into a hot air balloon, they float away, making rude gestures to the officers of the law.
- An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films a couple and their dog as they walk farther away into the woods.
- A magic act of transformations. A woman places a bust on a table which comes to life briefly before transforming into dancing midgets and a butterfly whose wings keep changing into a variety of patterns. Lastly the woman pulls two babies out of a large cabbage.
- A gang of cutthroats set ablaze a farmhouse after killing the farmer and stealing the proceeds of his sales. Captured and tried for his crimes, the pitiless plunderer faces death by guillotine, but first, a night of pure agony awaits.
- A short film in which a man performs various exercises to support James Maxwell's theory of gas molecules.
- An experimental film by Hollis Frampton documenting a man talking while a telephone rings, a tour of New York, and a goldfish.
- Based on an early 13th century myth, this short film tells the story of a Jew who is forced to walk throughout eternity having refused water to Christ on his way to Calvary. He falls asleep and sees a vision of himself as a youth, when he refused the water Christ asked of him; he plods on and runs into Satan who beats him with his staff; he makes his way through a frightful storm. On and on he goes, forced to walk through time until the Second Coming.
- An experimental short film by Hollis Frampton which compares and contrasts the colors of carrots and peas.
- A Brahman stuffs a serpent into a cocoon, and a butterfly woman comes out. She makes more butterflies come out of the same cocoon till a whole crowd of them are swarming the jungle. When the Brahman tries to catch the queen she turns him into the serpent who slinks off into the jungle.
- An experimental short film from the Gates of Death series made by Hollis Frampton.
- At his palace, the Rajah's casket of jewels is stolen by an evil sorcerer. The Rajah's henchmen go on a search for the valuable casket and find it hidden in a cave, and out of the casket rises a bevy of dancing girls who in turn dance for the delight of the Rajah to end the film.
- Frampton slowly burning his black and white photographs as he describes and tells the story behind them.
- On an elaborately decorated stage, the titular troubadour of the title bows. He then proceeds to pull several cards out of mid air and arrange them on the floor. Then, taking a banjo he multiplies himself into seven different troubadours, each playing a different musical instrument. A moment later, they all vanish and we are left with the troubadour who we were first introduced to at the beginning of the film. He explodes in a puff of smoke, and an enormous fan appears and unfolds. On it appears a vision of a castle tower with a maiden in it, and the troubadour outside the tower window, talking to her. The vision dissolves, and the troubadour bows, thus ending his performance.
- An experimental short film which displays the various contrasts in colors.
- A musketeer arrives at an inn and announces to the staff that he possesses a magic sword. Greatly excited by this news, they beg him for a performance, and so, taking his sword and spreading his arms in the air, a tablecloth appears out of mid-air and spreads itself on the table. Next come some goblets which also come out of mid-air and set themselves on the table. Following this is a centerpiece, also coming out of mid-air, and some candelabras which dance. A moment later, everything disappears. The musketeer, tired after his performance, wishes to be shown a room to rest, and a moment later is soon fast asleep. No sooner has he dozed off then in sneaks Nicholas, a kitchen boy who was entranced by the performance. Without giving it a second thought, he grabs the sword and sneaks back downstairs, and into the main room. Excited to perform his own magic with the sword, he has no idea how to use it properly, and disastrous results follow. Plates come out of nowhere and fall on him, rendering him momentarily unconscious. These are followed by some pillars, and climbing on top of one, he rides around a whole circle of them, fights with them, and is bewildered by them. Soon, more plates come out of nowhere and bury him completely, causing a huge racket and waking up the musketeer, who, upon finding the sword missing, runs downstairs and finds the rest of the staff. Going into the main room, they find the foolish boy buried, and pull him out, the sword running through the back of his shirt. He is all too happy to be rid of it.
- A magician and his assistant perform numerous magic acts.
- The battleship Maine is blown up in Havana harbor during the Spanish-American War.