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- The subject of this short film is taxation and tax reform
- The cathedral scene from Shaw's famous play.
- Short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process in which Capt. W. G. R. Hinchliffe (1894-1928) and Charles A. Levine (1897-1991) are interviewed at the Clapham Studios in London just before their return flight to the U.S.
- The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- Actor Bransby Williams appears as the miser in an excerpt of Dickens' novel Bleak House.
- This experimental talking short shows Cantor in his vaudeville act.
- British banjo duo Alvin and Kelvin Keech perform in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The Keech brothers are sometimes credited with inventing the banjulele, a hybrid of banjo and ukulele.
- The Victoria Girls, appearing "in their famous dancing medley" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, sing and dance to popular songs "Diane" by Erno Rapee, "Rain" by Eugene Ford, and "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Francis Wheeler.
- Betty Chester, music hall star billed as "the well-known Co-Optimist star" sings song "Pig-Tail Alley" in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- A short film showing a Curtiss JN-4 ("Jenny") biplane in flight.
- Blake plays the neoclassical piece on the piano. The highest notes failed to record in this seminal experiment with synchronized sound.
- An artist hires a busker to pose for him and finds he is his father-in-law.
- If it is what I think it is then it is a very funny sketch with Rob Wilton playing a fire service officer. Available on YouTube and well worth a look. Only lasts a few minutes