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- This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors.
- A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.
- A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.
- In one glorious point-of-view shot, a vehicle dashes full-speed into an ill-starred passer-by.
- A lost girl, whipped by a ruffian and forced to beg, is saved by a gentleman who whips the ruffian.
- A boss kidnaps the foreman's daughter. A dog leads the strikers to her and they thrash the boss.
- The opening scene is in Elsinore, where a ghost is seen by the sentinels keeping guard on the battlements of the castle. This is related to Hamlet by his friend Horatio, who describes the spirit as much resembling the late King of Denmark, his deceased father, whom his Uncle Claudius is suspected to have murdered in order that the latter might usurp his throne. Uncle Claudius also married the queen, the mother of Hamlet, within a month after. Hamlet, moved by the narration of Horatio, determines to watch for the next appearance of the ghost. It is seen again at midnight, discloses itself to Hamlet as his murdered parent and relates to him the cruel circumstances of his cruel murder by the king, his uncle, and calls upon Hamlet to avenge it. In order to accomplish this purpose, Hamlet feigns madness, especially in his conduct towards Ophelia, daughter of Polonius, with whom he is enamored. Hamlet engages some players who enact a scene in the presence of the king and queen which displays the murder of his father, purposely to try the king. Claudius, on beholding this, stung by his conscious guilt and fearful of some outward event, determines to rid himself of his nephew by sending him to England. This project is aided by Hamlet, killing Polonius. whom he mistakes for the king and who was concealed behind the arras to listen to the conversation between the queen and her son, who had demanded an interview, Hamlet is by an accident made prisoner by some pirates as he is on his way to England but escapes and unexpectedly returns to Denmark. Previously, he discovers that the ambassadors are instructed by the king's letters to cause him to be put to death on his arrival in England. These letters he exchanges for others containing the same directions for the deaths of the ambassadors. During his absence, Ophelia, distracted through her father's death and her own misfortune, destroys herself, and her brother, Laertes, urged by false rumors concerning his father's demise, rebels against the king, but he abandons his intention on being told that Hamlet committed the deed. A stratagem is evolved by the king in which Laertes basely consents to kill Hamlet by secret means. Claudius wagers six Barbary horses against six French swords with Laertes that in a dozen passes he does not exceed Hamlet by three. Hamlet consents to make a trial and is first wounded by Laertes, who has treacherously used a poisoned weapon. In a scuffle they change swords and Laertes is himself wounded by the same deadly rapier. The king had prepared a poisoned chalice with which he determined to end Hamlet if Laertes failed. In the contents of this, the queen, unconscious that it is drugged, pledges Hamlet and is poisoned. Laertes, in the agony of death, confesses his own perfidy and accuses the king, and Hamlet, with the sword of Laertes, revenges himself by stabbing Claudius. The film concludes with the news of the death of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern through letters forged by Hamlet, and a eulogium oh the unfortunate prince by his friend Horatio and the choice of young Fortinbras for King of Denmark.
- A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
- Daisy and her husband both go in for a face-pulling contest, but when the big day comes she is unable to attend the competition, and her husband wins instead. When the next opportunity comes around, she is determined to win -- but gets a little over-enthusiastic on the way to the contest and finds herself in trouble! She is most ungrateful for her rescue; fate, however, catches up with her that night...
- An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
- A madman adopts the daughter of the dead woman who rejected him and forces her to marry a crook.
- A young woman is abducted and forced to beg from passers-by.
- A boy cuts a hammock so that a courting couple fall.
- As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy retaliates by sneaking into the older man's room and putting pepper in his handkerchief, hairbrush, and clothing. But things quickly get out of hand when the sneezing that results begins to disrupt the whole town.
- As two couples enjoy their evening promenade in a nice but rickety open motor car, without notice, an explosion blows the vehicle to smithereens.
- A doctor kills his rival and dies of shock on seeing him materialise on a purchased skeleton.
- A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.
- A man caught in a fight causes pain to his sympathetic twin.
- A man wins a girl by pretending to take poison.
- A man is obsessed by the 'Salome' dance.
- A blind man saves a policeman's daughter from kidnappers.
- A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.
- A young couple are having a picnic with a chaperone who is determined to keep them separated. When she falls asleep, they see their chance to be together. They do this with the help of a trick that makes use of a nearby hedge.
- A Cockney poses as his drowned double, who is saved and poses as a chauffeur.
- A gardener fetches a man to save his wife from a rich lover's drugged wine.
- The story of Little Red Riding Hood being read to a little girl and shown in animated form.
- A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.
- A waif sees a girl kidnapped, saves her, and takes her home.
- A judge's disowned son becomes a reporter and marries a condemned man's daughter.
- A busker becomes a prima donna and the crowd saves her from a jealous gambler's knife.
- Twin sisters Anna and Annabel are as different as can be. Anna is a withdrawn art student, while Annabel is a dancer who is the toast of Paris. Annabel's husband vanishes on their honeymoon. Believing him dead, she assumes her sister's identity, she parties all over town, then marries a wealthy industrialist. Howewver, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.
- A strong girl saves a man from being framed for jewel theft.
- Girls and beaux hide to foil a landlord and bailiffs.
- A man poses as a maid to fool an amorous man and win his daughter.
- A veteran is suspected of stealing a locket from the colonel's daughter.
- A starving street organist finds work in time to save his wife from suicide.
- A poor girl takes the place of a princess's doll and flirts with the prince.
- A dumb witness saves a miner when a rival frames him for shooting a girl.
- A sailor returns from a shipwreck to find his wife remarried.
- A maid steals a divorced father's child and takes it to the mother.
- The magic of a real solar eclipse filmed on May 28, 1900 by a famous magician, Nevil Maskelyne, during an expedition by The British Astronomical Association to North Carolina.
- A girl elopes with a bigamist who forces her to work in a tavern. She is saved by a sailor.
- A rival fells a tree to make a motor-cyclist crash. Then he dons his goggles and takes his place at the wedding.