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- 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.
- A boy looks through glasses at various objects, seen magnified.
- A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it.
- An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
- Smith casts his wife as a sluttish housewife who is mutilated by lighting her oven with paraffin.
- A girl gives a spoonful of medicine to a kitten.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 thrilling and impressive military subject, showing several regiments of the French army in splendid action. We see a large body of troops "on the defensive," "defending the bridge," "bringing forward the artillery," and in many other exciting maneuvers.
- 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.
- A man dreams he is flirting with an attractive young lady, then he wakes up in bed next to his wife.
- 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 tramp steals a bicycle and is chase by a PC and a crowd.
- A hunting horn sounds in the distance, setting the village dogs barking with excitement, and soon round the corner of the lane there comes the master with his pack of big hounds and bevy of shaggy, rough-coated terriers, the latter yelping and straining at their leashes. Over the meadows we go first, hounds trying the stream bit by bit, then into the woods, where in the shade of the old trees and mass of tall tangled undergrowth, hounds are almost hidden from our view. We have scrambled over many hedges, helping the ladies over at some times, at others ungallantly having to leave them in order that we might get the bioscope's omniscient eye pointed upon the hounds as they begin to whimper and feather on some faint scent. Soon we leave the path and take to the water, wading in and out of cool pools, tripping and slipping on the boulders to the peril of the bioscope. The hills have closed in on either side, fine old oak trees, rich in green, their trunks covered with green lichen, rise up around us, yet we have not found a beaver. But what is that? One old hound hugging the bank gives a whimper, the others gather round, and the terriers, wishing to have their say, dash up and look important; then there is a splash, a streak of shining grey flits across the water, and we are away full cry. Hounds giving tongue, terriers barking, and some local country gentlemen loudly shouting, we race up stream: "Give the hounds room and don't yell," promptly cries the master; the whips take up their positions, cheering on the hounds, and thus we go up the stream, till at last, in a clear, deep pool, the sides of steep rock covered in rich green moss, among a tangled mass of dead tree trunks, the beaver gets away underground. Then the terriers have their day working down into her underground refuge, and out she pops to lead us yet further up among the hills, when, at last, surrounded and secured by hounds, it is caught.
- Merchants hire a foreign criminal to kidnap a scientist for the secret of manufacturing diamonds.
- 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 short feature showing scenes of the Zambezi river as it tumbles over the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia. The scenes were filmed by Joseph de Frenes as part of the Urban-Africa expedition.
- "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
- Revival of an old drama founded on the marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine Howard. The Duke of Norfolk, friend of "Bluff King Hal," marries Catherine secretly. The King sees Catherine, loves her, swears she shall by his wife, at the same time requests Norfolk to marry Margaret, Henry's sister. Norfolk, to avoid marrying, pretends death and is placed in the tombs, expecting to be released by Catherine. She, however, deserts him and marries the King; Margaret saves Norfolk; Henry finds Catherine unfaithful and she is punished.
- 20 scenes: The birth, life, marriage and death of Hiawatha.