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- A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it.
- 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.
- 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 man dreams he is flirting with an attractive young lady, then he wakes up in bed next to his wife.
- 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 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.
- Merchants hire a foreign criminal to kidnap a scientist for the secret of manufacturing diamonds.
- 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.
- 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.
- An artist draws a coster couple who come to life and dance a cakewalk.
- The new ideas embodied in this picture are of a ludicrous and startling nature. This is not an advertisement film, although in order to carry out the idea it was necessary to utilize (in animated form) the conception of a famous poster. Mr. Jones, with house cleaning tendencies, stops his cab in front of a hoarding on which is displayed the "Vacuum Cleaner" poster. He takes the address of the firm's offices. The firm gives a demonstration before Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones engages the firm to clean his premises. The slavey is frightened at the sudden invasion of the vacuum spout, which she mistakes for a hideous monster. In her endeavor to escape she is sucked up by the rapacious machine. Mr. Jones has a dream: subject, the antics (?) of the vacuum cleaner. The attendants at work. In rapid succession the chairs, tables, carpets, etc., are drawn into the spout apparently through the two-inch hose, to be taken from the machine, newly upholstered, varnished and cleaned. The servant and children are likewise drawn through the apparatus and are taken from the machine, cleaned and newly dressed, to their great delight. Jones is now approached by the fearful spout. He rapidly disappears down its gullet and is shoveled into a barrow by the attendants who are clearing the machine of the collected rubbish. This is wheeled away and dumped over an embankment into a field. Jones is seen rolling down the slope. Jones has been the victim of a nightmare. The final scene shows him restlessly tossing in his bed, from which he finally tumbles to the floor. He wakens, and in a dazed way realizes that his troubles are of nightmare quality only, and instead of finding himself at the base of the rubbish heap he is still capable of instituting domestic reforms.
- "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 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 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 hungry vagabond snatches a wrapped leg of lamb and jumps into a large wooden barrel to hide. Will he get away scot-free?
- A girl gives a spoonful of medicine to a kitten.
- Adventures of a performing ape aboard the S.S. George Washington.
- An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
- This remarkable film shows hundreds of typhoid and other disease germs found in sewage contaminated water, in all stages of growth, and in restless unceasing movement.
- Various magical effects involving a bottle.
- A conjuror's son's tricks go wrong.
- 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.
- A large pool in Milan has diving boards set at different heights. As some people watch from along the pool's edge, others enjoy themselves by diving into the pool, using a variety of different styles.
- An interesting exhibition of Miss Kellermann, (wearing the mask and goggles adopted as a protection against the effects of salt water) swimming the English Channel. She is accompanied by a party in a small boat, the sides of which she occasionally approaches for refreshments, which are handed to her by the occupants. These are consumed while in the water, evidently with great relish.
- The challenge of the very slow lens required by F. Percy Smith for macro-photography, coupled with the insensitive film stock of the day, meant that so much light was required for exposure that the poor flies quickly succumbed to the heat. As Smith had glued their wings so that they could not fly away, they used their legs to achieve the memorable results seen here.
- A girl dies saving her blind father's life and her spirit emerges from a gramophone horn.
- A tramp steals a bicycle and is chase by a PC and a crowd.
- The mythical Puck of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" becomes embodied and engages to the full his powers of mischief upon an innocent suburbanite with a hobby for gardening. Puck, however, is possessed of a conscience, for he invariably remedies the havoc his pranks have made, even to the marvelous restoration, limb by limb, of the suburbanite to the bosom of his grieving family. Puck's pranks, throughout the series, divert with uproarious laughter, as well as mystify by the marvelous appearances and disappearances for which he is responsible. Puck, with a total disregard of the law of gravity, causes horticultural debris to take form and resume wonted shapes and places upon the greenhouse shelves. But perhaps the most mysterious event of a magic series is the literal dissolution of the suburbanite in the heat of the greenhouse, nothing but his clothes remaining. Wonderful and magical floral growths are introduced, by means of which the ordinary, barren suburban garden takes tropic life and becomes a veritable bosky dell of dream beauty.
- A jester causes pierrots to merge, fade and appear.
- A clown and his donkey perform circus tricks and stage magic. A circus monkey serves as an assistant to the clown.
- 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.
- Scissors cut out shapes which come to life.
- 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 prof dreams he makes old friends young again, and they play pranks.
- A boy stows away and on return finds his drunken mother reformed.
- 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.
- 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 lively scene among the fishing fleet on the Fraser River during the salmon season, showing hundreds of salmon struggling in the nets as these are drawn to the surface and finally emptied of their contents.
- Boy swimmers upset a bench and throw lovers into a stream.