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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.
- 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 poor young girl tries to sell matches in a snowstorm. After being robbed by bullies, she lights matches which illuminate visions of a far happier Christmas than the one she faces.
- Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down the street to a house fire. Inside a man sleeps, he awakes amidst flames and throws himself back on the bed. In comes a firefighter, hosing down the blaze. He carries out the victim, down a ladder to safety. Other firefighters enter the house to save belongings, and out comes one with a baby. The saved man rejoices, but it's not over yet. Another resident appears upstairs. He jumps.
- Matchsticks come to life and perform tricks.
- Clown cuts off customer's head and replaces it.
- The adventures of an inattentive man. He's at his kitchen table, reading. A woman brings his hat and points to the clock. He continues reading and pours coffee into his hat. He leaves, still reading, trips over a servant who's on her hands and knees cleaning the walk. He walks through jump-roping girls, runs into a mule, walks into the only other person on an empty street, and then walks into the path of a steamroller. Two cyclists approach his flattened body. Out come their air pumps, and soon our genial hero has set off again, nose in his book.
- 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 boy puts a worm in a seaside telescope.
- Boys play jokes on the family and are punished.
- A stunt cyclist is seen jumping off Brighton Pier, from multiple angles and in multiple directions(!) Some more mundane high-diving footage follows, in the same style.
- 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!
- Boys play pranks on people and are chased.
- Scenes of the funeral of Queen Victoria.
- A boy helps to escape a convict after meeting him at his mother's graveyard. The convict gets rich in Australia and when he returns is arrested again but released in the last moment after a dying convict confesses.
- In split screen, a man calls his girlfriend, but her father interrupts. He comes over the the man's home and beats him with an umbrella.
- A sacked nurse steals an officer's child. Her mother rides to the rescue and shoots the nurse.
- Scenes of the coronation ceremonies of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
- A workman flees from a lunatic who wishes to return a putty knife.
- Scenes of the coronation ceremonies of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
- Scenes of the funeral of Queen Victoria.
- Scenes of the coronation ceremonies of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
- Boys blow peas at the cobbler, who throws a boot and hits a woman.
- Scenes of the coronation ceremonies of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
- Scenes of the coronation ceremonies of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
- Boys hand their aunt's suitor a hosepipe instead of his cane.