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- An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
- A man and woman are flirting when a professor turns on an X-ray machine, revealing their insides. After turning it off again the two have a dispute and break up.
- A humorous subject intended to be run as a part of a railroad scene during the period in which the train is passing through a tunnel.
- 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 girl gives a spoonful of medicine to a kitten.
- Brother and sister are sent to bed on Christmas Eve, and while they are asleep, Santa Claus comes down the chimney and fills their waiting stockings with toys.
- A re-enactment using actors of the recent coronation of Britain's King Edward VII.
- 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 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.
- Eight scenes: Sing a Song of Sixpence, Old Mother Hubbard, Little Miss Muffet, Goosey Gander, Jack and Jill, Old Woman in a Shoe, Hey Diddle Diddle.
- A man dreams he is flirting with an attractive young lady, then he wakes up in bed next to his wife.
- This is one of the earliest films to be shot in India - it was filmed in 1899. The film apparently shows the Kolkata (Calcutta) ghats as seen from the perspective of a boat travelling along the Hooghly river, a tributary of the Ganges. However, although the film's title states that this is Calcutta, the footage was in fact shot in the holy city of Varanasi (also on the Ganges). The filmmaker from the Warwick Trading Company clearly had a short memory or a limited sense of geography.
- Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.
- A couple is seated outside of the girl's residence, making love. He subsequently takes her into her house and asks her father if he could marry his daughter. The father agrees. He is seen leaving the house, when just as he steps out he encounters the jilted woman, who follows him. We next see the couple going into church, and just as they are entering, the jilted woman appears and tries to prevent the marriage. She having failed, leaves. We next see the couple emerging from the church, and they are given a shower of rice by the relations and friends. In the meantime the father of the girl is taken suddenly ill, whereupon they call in a doctor and a nurse. The nurse is the jilted woman, who has disguised herself as an old lady of 60. She is next seen making up medicine for the sick man, but instead of medicine she is putting poison in a bottle. We next see the old man taking his medicine, and fall dead. The husband is accused of the murder and is placed in jail. In the meantime the nurse escapes, and while she is running away she encounters the daughter of the dead man on the top of a high precipice. She leaps down and pretty nearly kills herself. She is then taken in an automobile, the chauffeur of which is an old friend of ours, being W. G. Barker, and is taken into a room. She confesses everything, and the young husband is released.
- A highway man robs a coach, is chased to York and caught when his horse dies.
- A picturesque view of the Lake of Lucerne, showing one of the small steamers that play its surface, and a number of old chalets and ruins.
- Two men in a canoe splash each other until it capsizes.
- A strong man bends a lamp post to light his cigar.
- A commissioner's influence causes a savage to buy European clothes and go to church.
- Children playing at "doctors" with the kitten in a cradle as patient. When the medicine is administered a magnified view of the kitten's head is shown, the manner in which the little animal receives its dose (of milk) is from a spoon.
- 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.
- As a mother enters a store, she leaves her child outside in a carriage. Another woman standing nearby quickly snatches the child out of the carriage. Soon afterwards, another mother is playing with two children in the park, and when she leaves one of them unattended, her child is also seized by the same woman. These are only two of a number of children that an unscrupulous couple has captured for their own purposes.
- The Horseshoe Cloisters at the foot of the steps up to the west door of St. George's Chapel is literally the journey's end. With the arrival of the gun carriage the open-air pageant that began so quietly at Osborne, closes in the same note of peace. A very picture of human life seems that procession of the dead -- so restful in the surroundings whence it started, to pass by and through packed streets, then this deserted cloister, empty of all sound till we seem to hear the murmur of the myriad London surging up from over the gray plains. Policemen guard either archways; the distant battlements are lined with spectators; occasionally a quaint old singing man flits on his way to take his place in the choir -- beyond that, no whisper, no stir. Then a flag company of foot guards enter the cloisters to occupy the semicircle of grass facing the steps, and the police are withdrawn. Worn out, and with the dry eyes of those who have no more tears to shed -- that was the picture of the principal mourners -- the King and Duke of Connaught -- as they stood surrounded by their royal kinsmen at the foot of the steps, white pall and crown were lifted away and the plain oak coffin was reverently hoisted to the shoulders of faithful Guardsmen. This the bier was born up the steps, the steepness of which, coupled with the tremendous weight of the coffin, made the last few yards of the progress very difficult. Very slowly the mourners mounted the wreath-lined way to the iron doors -- first the King and his only brother; then the German Emperor, the King of the Belgians, and the Kings of Greece and Portugal, the Crown Prince of Russia, whose face bears the bright tokens of a vigorous mind; the Czarewitch, young too and kindly; and many more from many kingly houses. Thus very, very slowly did they follow their kinswoman on her journey from the servitude of earth and pomp and kingship, through the iron gates she passes, a soul set free. This Film is the final and most impressive of all the many photographs we have secured of this historical pageant, and is the only animated photo secured within the walls of Windsor Castle, by special permission of the high authorities. It is unique, and of great historical value, inasmuch as this part of the ceremony was entirely private, none but the very highest personages being admitted within the cloisters. Photographically perfect.
- In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle. The other is a chimney sweep, and he's swinging what may be a bag of flour, but when it breaks open, it's clearly something else. Well into the havoc, spectators gather and give chase to the flour-covered sweep and the "well-sooted" miller.