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- The story was about low-income residents of a building, financed by The Peabody Trust, founded by American banker-philanthropist George Foster Peabody, to offer affordable housing to needy Londoners.
- In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.
- A captain saves a kidnapped magnate from a nursing home run by foreign agents.
- In France a man frames his daughter for poisoning her rich husband.
- A sacked clerk rises to become Mayor and weds the daughter of the councillor who sacked him.
- Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the original organ music.
- A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
- A clan chief seeks revenge on the jealous Duke who outlawed him.
- When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his freedom.
- A Cornish man working in a silver mine on a French island is framed for killing a girl's father and brother.
- A rich girl's fiancé poses as a chauffeur to stop her eloping with a major.
- A KC's wife is forced to admit in court that the child killed by her drunken ex-chauffeur was hers.
- Spoofy, Jimmy Gubbins, and Billy Foster are all reported dead in the First World War. In reality, they have been prisoners of the Germans and are released at the end of the war. They return to England to discover that they are believed dead and they christen themselves The Three Live Ghosts. Jimmy's mother has been collecting life insurance on him and doesn't want his non-dead quality to spoil the game. Additionally, she wants to claim the reward for a missing William Foster by turning in Billy. And Spoofy, who suffers from amnesia and kleptomania, worries his pals when he turns up with posh clothes and a baby, just after a nobleman's house is robbed and a child kidnapped.
- A drug king kills a criminal for giving cocaine to his teenage daughter.
- An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
- A gypsy loves a married farmer who is blinded blowing up a tree.
- In Canada a man investigates his brother's death and saves a suspected girl from kidnap.
- A jealous girl compromises a Lord's gypsy wife but confesses when the gypsy cures her baby's diphtheria.
- A girl wins a cleric's approval by revealing she is his daughter by a runaway marriage.
- A girl renounces her love to care for her insane father so that her mother may marry again.
- An inspector and a private detective fight each other to dismantle a blackmail gang.
- A clerk on a bicycle tour saves a girl from eloping with a bully.
- A Duke's daughter loves an author and follows him to France, discovering her father withheld letters.
- Lord Byron's wife leaves him after a jealous lady plots his ruin.
- A composer's neighbour rescues a seduced waif and discovers she is his daughter.
- A Lady stops her daughter from eloping with a farmer, takes away her baby, and makes her marry a Lord.
- Great events of Queen Victoria's reign seen through the eyes of three girls.
- In India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother and is killed by a python.
- A series of twelve short films re-enacting highlights from famous novels. Individual titles are: #1: Trilby; #2: Les Miserables; #3: Sappho; #4: Nancy; #5: Fagin; #6: La Tosca; #7: Scrooge; #8: Vanity Fair; #9: East Lynne: #10: A Tale of Two Cities; #11: Moths; #12: David Garrick.
- Workmen wound a mill-owner when he installs machinery.
- A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
- A poor woman poses as her own rich twin to fool her mean landlady.
- A village vicar's daughter a wayward heir from a city siren.
- A psychic expert hypnotises his cousin to shoot their rich uncle.
- A flower girl wins £60,000 and takes her family to Paris to save her sister from her murderous husband.
- An estate claimant is cleared of murder but is found to be an impostor.
- A robbed sailor turns tramp and saves a farmer's ship from burning.
- A captain kidnaps his half brother to usurp an earldom.
- A man proves his disinherited father took the blame for his cousin's cowardice in the Zulu war.
- A captain fakes his own drowning to escape a marriage clause in his uncle's will.
- A widow's crooked trustee tries to hobble a bachelor's racehorses.
- A governor's disowned daughter is ejected by her English husband and loved by a Persian Prince.
- An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
- An American heiress's fiancé saves a fisherman accused of stabbing his wife.
- In South America a gunrunner is crowned king and saved from a revolution by a native girl.
- A sick jockey rides the winner when a substitute is thrown and hurt.
- In Deauville a German couple lure girl gamblers to a 'haunted' house and kill them for their jewels.