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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.
- 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.
- 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?
- An artist draws a coster couple who come to life and dance a cakewalk.
- Merchants hire a foreign criminal to kidnap a scientist for the secret of manufacturing diamonds.
- 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 girl gives a spoonful of medicine to a kitten.
- 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 man dreams he is flirting with an attractive young lady, then he wakes up in bed next to his wife.
- A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it.
- An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
- 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 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.
- 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 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.
- "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
- A tramp steals a bicycle and is chase by a PC and a crowd.
- 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 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.
- Satan drives a train over telegraph wires, under the sea, etc.
- This is an intensely interesting production. The tourist, the lover of the romantic, and the student will find the scenes of picturesque beauty, sublime, awe-inspiring, wild, weird and magnificent. No collection of scenic subjects is complete without this film. Photographic quality is unexcelled.
- An historical drama, illustrating the court life of France, governed by the influence of Catherine de Medici. Splendidly reproduced, powerfully enacted, full of human interest and incident. Introducing the following scenes: Courtyard, gallants and courtiers; the Audience Chamber, King Francis II and his court; the Royal Document, "on account of heresy and insolence to the Queen, our mother, we declare La Renandie guilty of high treason;" the Document is signed; Love scene on terrace, guards arrest La Renandie for high treason; Faithful unto death, prisoner brought forth; Final verdict, appeal to the King. He is ill; nobody is allowed an interview; the King's Pardon; La Renandie in prison, receipt of royal order for execution; Catherine de Medici intervenes and offers La Renandie his pardon, repulsed; the Firing Party prepares to carry out the execution, Mlle. D'Espard arrives with the King's pardon. Saved by love.
- Five horse-drawn fire-engines are seen leaving a fire station at Lyon followed by a crowd of men and boys.
- A film crew records the sights and sounds of the Nile River, circa 1911. One of the first experiments of colorized films, utilizing Kinemacolor.
- An interesting and instructive subject. The mine is entered and we follow each process slowly and as perfectly as though actually on the spot. The drilling, blasting, digging, carting, hauling and the various other work is followed in every detail, and much information and instruction can be acquired. Not only is the mining process illustrated, but the apparatus and the people engaged, the manner of living, etc.
- 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.
- A mischievous four-year-old girl tricks a tramp, policeman and doctor.
- An officer steals plans in return for a spy framing his rival.
- 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 scenic subject depicting in a most pleasing manner the delight of travels over a most picturesque and beautiful landscape.
- A man drops a string of wet cotton onto a photographic plate, and it proceeds to create designs and drawings, rather like an ancient Etch-a-Sketch.
- The first attempt made by Professor Stanley Spencer to navigate his Airship around St. Paul's was not entirely successful as far as obtaining good animated pictures of the ship in mid air was concerned, although scores of "cinematographers" had a "shot" at it. The only picture showing in detail the structure of the airship transporting same from its shed at the Crystal Palace, the start, and sailing in mid air, was secured by us, and gives an excellent idea of nature of the "ship" with which Professor Spencer hopes to conquer the areal sphere.
- The Dragonfly is seen in an early stage of its life ere the beautiful gauzy wings have grown. Several of these young dragonfly larvae are seen disporting themselves in the water, darting rapidly about, while joining in their gambles comes the curious water scorpion waving his sharp pointed front legs with which he catches his prey. The last portion of this subject shows the winged and perfect insect alighting on a group of leaves.