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- A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
- An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
- A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
- In a medium close-up shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at hair's breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.
- A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
- In this spectacular free adaptation of the popular theatre play "La Biche au Bois", the valiant Prince Bel-Azor pursues a baleful old witch to her impregnable castle, to save the beautiful young Princess Azurine.
- A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out?
- Much to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.
- A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
- Unauthorized shot-for-shot remake by the Lubin Manufacturing Company of Edwin S. Porter's 1903 film of the same name. Two bandits break into a telegraph station to board and rob a train before being shot down in a standalone final.
- Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowing on cinematographic methods reminiscent of 'Georges Melies', Porter uses animation, double exposure, and trick photography to illustrate the fairy's apparitions, Jack's dream, and the fast growing beanstalk.
- Scenes. 1. The Route to the Depths of Perdition (a Dazzingly Sensational New Effect.) 2. The Fantastical Ride. 3. The Gloomy Pass. 4. The Stream. 5. The Entrance to the Lower Regions. 6. The Marvelous Grottoes (tableau with six dissolving Scenes.) 7. The Crystal Stalactites 8. The Devil's Hole 9. The Ice Cavern. 10. The Goddesses of Antiquity (a Superb Fantastical Ballet in a Snowstorm.) 11. The Subterranean Cascade (a New Trick with Apparition in a Waterfall.) 12. The Nymphs of the Underworld.--The Seven Headed Hydra--The Demons--The Struggle of Water with Fire (a big Novelty.) 13. The Descent to Satan's Domain (a clever trick now first shown.) 14. The Furnace. 15. The Triumph of Mephistopheles.
- 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.
- Early period piece showing a brief and Euro-centric view of Christopher Columbis' landing in the New World, his triumphant return to Spain with Native Americans and wildlife, and his eventual disgrace.
- When the picture first appears, a bald-headed man is seen seated back of a table on which a number of cosmetics are lying. He has tried them all without success. He knocks on the table and a maid appears, bringing with her a box containing a number of bottles. In one of the bottles is a certain liquid, which, it is presumed, will grow hair on a bald head. A few drops applied to the head produces a bunch or tuft of hair directly on top of his head. He continues to apply the magic liquid until his head is crowned with a luxuriant growth of black hair reaching to his shoulders. He resolves to grow whiskers at once, and, rubbing his wet hands on his face, he obtains his wish. He rings for the maid, who is astounded at the marvelous properties of the water, and he is so happy at the results obtained that he embraces the maid, who is immediately adorned with a growth of hair on one side of her face. Seizing the bottle in her rage, she throws the contents at him, and his arms and hands are covered with a thick growth, while she flees in terror, and the man grows frantic in his endeavor to rid himself from the surplus hair. Very funny.
- Against a moonlit Egyptian backdrop duly encompassing the Sphinx, a narrator explains how a prince hires a mystic to bring back his beloved late wife.
- Smith casts his wife as a sluttish housewife who is mutilated by lighting her oven with paraffin.
- Robinson Crusoe and Friday fight with hostile natives, and eventually retire to their jungle cottage to relax.
- Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput, the inhabitants of which are no more than six inches tall. He later travels to Brobdingnag, a country populated by giants.
- This shows a game of Base Ball held between the victorious Athletic Club, of Philadelphia, the Champions of the season 1902-1903 and the Baltimore Club. The individual players are shown in their respective positions, principally the great "Rube Waddell," the famous pitcher.
- An ancient tower, in which is seated the magician, occupies the centre of the stage. On either side of the tower is a statue. The magician waves his hands and the tower and both statues disappear. He then removes his coat and seats himself upon a chair. On one side of the chair, two figures, each an exact counterpart of himself, appear. On the other side a third figure, also an exact counterpart of himself, appears. The figures then run up the wall, one of them balancing itself upon the head of the magician, and the others stand on their heads in the palms of his hands. The figures are then turned into flags, which the magician waves and throws aside as he makes his exit.
- Reenactment of an event from the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
- A human skeleton is placed upon a table by an attendant. When the attendant leaves the room the skeleton begins kicking his legs and throwing his arms about and suddenly turns into a magician. The magician produces an egg, performing several sleight-of-hand tricks, and places it upon the table with the small end downward. He then crudely draws a human face upon the shell, and the egg immediately begins growing larger and larger until it reaches the size of a normal head. The form of the egg fades away and there immediately appears the head of a very pretty girl. Then two or more of the same type appear on either side of the original. The heads of the girls are merged into one head and from this appears the hideous head of a hobgoblin. The hobgoblin fades away into the original egg. The egg is reduced to its normal size and is removed from the table by the magician, who swallows it. He then takes his place on the table, reverting back to the skeleton, which is removed by the attendant, thus closing the picture.
- A gang of criminals plans and executes the robbery of a bank in Philadelphia. However, the police are alerted and a chase through the city's streets ensues.
- The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
- A spectacular performance, in twelve tableaux, of the most popular and best known fairy tale in history. From this most simple tale we have produced a play that is both pleasing and amusing to young and old, introducing as we do many surprising tricks and dissolving effects. We have followed as near as possible the tale of Perrault, which is well known to all, and which has been translated into all languages. We have, on account of the peculiar effects that must be introduced in animated pictures, arranged it also with humorous features, without which it would not have been so highly interesting and pleasing as a motion picture demonstration of the fairy tale. The story itself is doubtless familiar to many of our customers, and we will, therefore, not attempt to describe it in our catalogue matter, except to state that it is composed of the finest trick and dissolving effects ever introduced, and that the action is replete from start to finish with humorous, emotional and spectacular situations.
- In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come running into the place a lot of Turkish men and women preceding some Turkish policemen, who drag along four prisoners in chains. The policemen shut up the four prisoners in the pillory. Their four heads stick up through the huge plank, which is provided with four openings. One of the policemen urges the executioner to decapitate the prisoners. He accordingly seizes a mighty sabre and cuts off by a single stroke the four heads, which roll upon the ground. After having placed the heads in a cask, he resumes eating his meal. Immediately the four heads pop out of the cask one at a time to see what the executioner is doing, and in due order each one seeks its body. The four executed prisoners thus reunited throw themselves upon the headsman and in spite of his resistance one of them picks up the sabre lying upon the ground and cuts his body into two pieces. The four prisoners take flight. The two legs and lower part of the body run frantically, while the bust upon the ground calls to them with gestures of despair. Finally, when the legs, in their flight, come close to the bust, it seizes them and thus the pieces of the executioner are united. Then he calls the policemen, who, followed by the crowd, enter into the pursuit of the escaping men.
- An early adaptation of the Ali Baba tale.
- "A Drama in the Air" revolves the adventure of two aviation pioneer and their voyage inside a balloon. They keep looking through the scenery from the distance, it's all good and fun until tragedy hits them when the air suddenly brings a stormy rain to interrupt their journey.
- A magician appears, and, taking a handkerchief from his pocket, rolls it into a ball between his palms, and it disappears. Immediately he pulls it from his mouth, and rolling it again in his hands, he repeats the trick, but it reappears in the shape of an egg. He asks one of the audience to loan him a hat. An ordinary derby is presented, but he declines it with thanks. He finally obtains a high hat, and in looking to see if the hat is sound, he pushes his hand through it. The owner becomes alarmed, but is assured it will be alright. An assistant is summoned into whose mouth is pushed a long rod of about eighteen inches in length, but with no apparent damage. Finally reaching into the man's mouth, a large dumpling is pulled forth and repeated four times. As fast as the dumpling appears the man eats them. Before delivering the dumplings a lighted candle is held under the hat so that a number of eggs which had previously been dropped therein, would cook thoroughly. The hat is returned to it's owner, but the cakes had disappeared. The assistant is recalled and made to disgorge, which he does with a bad grace. Everything is finally restored to its original shape and peace is again dominant.
- This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place during the eruption are plain to be seen. Thousands upon thousands of tons of molten lava, sand, rocks and steam are thrown high in the air and descend with crushing force upon the unfortunate inhabitants of the doomed city of St. Pierre. This is the worst calamity which occurred since a similar eruption by Mt. Vesuvius when Pompeii was destroyed.
- Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when the bust leaves the body and crossing the room mocks at him standing with the lower portion of her body in his hands. Further startling illusions are seen in this most beautiful picture.
- A newly married woman emerges from the church and cares for an outcast woman just outside, to the mystification of the wedding party, and places the ill woman in her own large bed, praying for her recovery.
- The scene is laid in the boudoir of a pretty maiden, who is seen in her bed fast asleep. She is a somnambulist. Rising, she lights a candle and leaves her room. We follow her through the corridor out on the roof, where she walks as though in a trance. We follow her for a full block across the roofs of the houses until she arrives at the corner, when she turns and walks on the outer edge for a few feet and, missing her footing, she is violently thrown to the ground, fifty feet below. The picture changes, and the body is seen to fall through space and land on the ground, but by the that time she is lifeless. An officer picks her up, but life is extinct. A man passing at the time assists the officer in carrying her to the hospital. Again the picture changes, and we see the maiden fast asleep in her room. Suddenly she rolls out on the floor, when she awakens and finds it but a dream, a hideous nightmare. Falling on her knees at her bedside, she prays fervently. Magnificent.
- A caterpillar climbs up a plant and is encased in a cocoon. It morphs into a butterfly, which then morphs into a dancer.
- In this version of the ancient fable, a poor man is given a hen which lays golden eggs, but he is overwhelmed by the urge to get at the gold inside the chicken.
- "Two babies are shown seated in high chairs and apparently enjoying themselves. Suddenly one snatches a toy from the other, and they indulge in hair-pulling."
- Segundo de Chomon documents a park in Barcelona, filming its extensive area, filled with trees and some constructions around. The innovation here is that instead of obtaining immobile images as usual in many films of the period, the director makes the camera move through the location, apparently shot while he was on a boat.
- Dramatization of the real-life shooting of Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw.
- A thrilling story of a party of rough Smugglers running a contraband cargo on their rocky coast. Scene 1.--Shows the face of the chief of the smuggler's gang. Scene 2.--An old fashioned village inn, in which are seated three old tars studying a chart of the coast and deciding where it would be best to attempt a "run." Scene 3.--A boat coming through the surf laden with kegs, which are lifted on the men's shoulders immediately the boat has grounded, and conveyed across the sands to a cave, where the horses and assistants are waiting to convey them across the country. Scene 4.--A look-out on the Coastguard station is seen sweeping the horizon with his telescope, and suddenly becomes aware that his old enemy the smuggler is actively engaged in trying to get the better of him. Scene 5.--Here the look-out is seen rushing to the Coastguard station to inform his superior officer what he has witnessed through his telescope. All the men are hastily summoned, and rush off to try and prevent the "run" being successful. Scene 6.--Shows the smugglers coming through a galley between two precipitous cliffs, picking their way through the rocks, and urging their horses as fast as possible, so as to get their valuable goods into security. Scene 7.--The Coastguardmen, being unable to get down to the beach quickly, have recourse to a long rope ladder, and are seen coming hand over hand down this ladder to the shore, where they form up and rush in pursuit of the gang. Scene 8.--Shows the smugglers working down amongst the rocks and trees, closely followed by the Coastguards. Scene 9.--Here the smugglers are seen hastily removing the kegs from the backs of the animals, and entering the old smuggling haunt. At this critical moment the Coastguards rush their foes and burst into the house in hot pursuit. Scene 10.--Shows a tremendous struggle between the smugglers and the Coastguards. The smugglers resist violently all attempts to capture, until compelled to throw up their hands and submit to being handcuffed at the muzzle of a revolver. Scene 11.--The final scene shows the smugglers being escorted to the lock-up, handcuffed two and two, and carefully guarded on either side by the Coastguards.
- An energetic Russian Cossack dancer who knows how to impress his audience with his extraordinary set of moves has a trick up his sleeve designed to capture applause.
- A happy family is brought to ruin when the father starts drinking.
- A close-up of a magician's hand, in which appear gold coins. The hand drops the coins in a bowl, then a man leans into the picture and proceeds to let more coins tumble out of his mouth. The picture is hand-colored.
- A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.
- Another magical trick well worth having. A large frame is seen hanging on the wall. Suddenly a basket of flowers appears therein, followed by a picture of a beautiful lady. This picture becomes animated and pleads to be taken out. The visitor approaches to comply with her request, she fades into a skeleton and from that to a huge satan's head. Wonderfully startling.
- The astronomer's son plays a trick on him, putting his cat at the end of the telescope so it appears to be on the moon. The great man rushes off to tell his colleague's about his amazing discovery.