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- Three friends go on a trip and decided to rest at an abandoned house. Everything seems pretty normal until really weird things start to happen.
- In a society in which gender roles are switched, will men tolerate being unequal?
- A penniless troubadour consults the Fairy Carabosse about his future but offends her by paying with a bag of sand.
- The life of Jesus Christ in 25 scenes.
- Two travelers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil.
- Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out and begin to perform a series of routines.
- A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.
- The young devil, bored of being in hell, is advised to go for a walk in Paris where incidents such as a car accident happen to him and find a girlfriend.
- A gang of cutthroats set ablaze a farmhouse after killing the farmer and stealing the proceeds of his sales. Captured and tried for his crimes, the pitiless plunderer faces death by guillotine, but first, a night of pure agony awaits.
- An unfortunate man has quite the tumble in a barrel.
- An upper class lady goes to the post office and takes her maid with her to help with the stamp affixing.
- The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an evil magician, steals the lamp for himself. Aladdin must regain the lamp or lose everything.
- An alchemist in the 18th century creates a potion that will temporarily turn anyone who drinks it invisible. While he is away two drunk burglars steal the potion and wreak havoc about town.
- An obsessive astronomer desperately wishes to fulfill his impossible dream of reaching for the stars - in this particular scenario, a beautiful female star that seduces him from the skies. With the assistance of his helper, he manages to find a unusual transportation that can take him all the way to reach his destiny: he enters on a giant soap bubble who'll take him there and present him some surprises.
- The scene opens, showing the inside of a small country theater. The stage is occupied by a number of actors, singing and dancing, among them a most attractive young soubrette. A group of soldiers are making their way towards the door because it is time for them to return to their barracks. A young officer, who has fallen in love with the pretty dancer, decides to go back to the place of merriment, and, having spent all his money, he steals some of the regiment's funds, and, with great difficulty, manages to elude the guards. He arrives at his sweetheart's home and showers upon her pretty gifts. While she is thanking him, the door opens, and officers arrest the deserter. He is led back to his garrison and deprived of the insignia of his rank and sentenced to prison insight of his fellow officers. The heart-broken proud old father comes to see him and gives him a revolver to end his disgraceful career.
- A young enslaved chimney sweep named Jack finds a box of jewels in a chimney which restores his well-being.
- A poor wanderer in the middle of winter is that no one helps him except the priest of a parish who gives him food and room to sleep. But the homeless man pays for it by stealing valuables from the church.
- A man tries to shave, but his mirror keeps playing tricks on him.
- Sound asleep in his comfortable armchair next to a high-pressure retort, a mystic silver-haired alchemist can't even notice the strange manifestations emerging from the vessel's bottom. Is this a dream, or a cornucopia of secreted desires?
- A shepherd fights with his wife and storms out of their cottage. Falling asleep he is visited by apparitions who taunt him. Waking up, he regrets the fight and makes up.
- At his palace, the Rajah's casket of jewels is stolen by an evil sorcerer. The Rajah's henchmen go on a search for the valuable casket and find it hidden in a cave, and out of the casket rises a bevy of dancing girls who in turn dance for the delight of the Rajah to end the film.
- Professor Do-mi-sol-do is trying to practice music, but his instruments and music stand begin to provoke him.
- Some children are watching the Punch and Judy puppet show when the puppeteers, in their excitement, let the puppets fall out onto the floor, where they turn into to small midgets that grow into normal people. This leads to a scene where the manager is bombed with fruit by the audience.
- A man says goodbye to his wife. Once he is gone, his wife invites her lover in. However, the husband has missed his train. What will happen when he returns?
- Alice Guy (later known as Alice Guy-Blaché) tackles the subject of bad parenting in this dramatic, tear-jerking short.
- A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they reach land, a sailor who died during the mutiny is made a martyr, inspiring an uprising in the city. Then the authorities decide to repress the revolt with a brutal show of force.
- Some mattress makers take a break from their work to drink in the saloon. While they're gone a tramp climbs into the mattress to warm himself. When the mattress makers come back they sew the tramp inside the mattress. This leads to a disastrous scene of the tramp running wildly around, causing confusion.
- An entomologists is found guilty for trying to collect rare insects.
- An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.
- A magician performs a magic show involving women turning into bouquets of roses. Later the roses are festooned together in a fancy way to decorate the stage.
- All it takes is a tumble from a photographer's assistant, and his backdrop and equipment crashes out the window onto the street. Confusion ensues.
- Features a painter in trouble with his landlord. Then, magical dancing safes appear and the painter selects a bag of gold from each, and plays with his money until a fairy appears and escorts him to a fairy land where fairies dance for his delight. Meanwhile the painters' model comes back to his studio, where the painter tries to hang himself, when the rope breaks, and upon which the model enters the studio to find the painter on the floor.
- In this beautiful little fairy story we see a rich old fellow who is the possessor of a magic donkey, and when he is currycombed he sheds gold in profusion, and keeps his master well supplied in wealth. The old fellow has a beautiful daughter and is desirous of marrying her to a man of his choice, but the latter is so ugly that when he is presented to the girl she turns away in horror, and will have nothing to do with him. He shows her beautiful gowns and tries in every manner (with the assistance of her father) to win her, but she is steadfast in her resolutions and finally turn him out. When she is left alone she opens the casket which contains the dresses, and out steps a beautiful Fairy Queen, who promises to befriend her. She advises the girl not to marry till her father gives her the donkey's skin, and then urging her to keep up her courage, the good Queen disappears. The next picture shows us the death of the poor old donkey and when the skin is ready the girl is presented with it; and from that time on is known only by the name of "Donkey Skin." The Queen appears to her again and when the maiden casts the skin from her the Queen picks it up and throws it over her shoulders, telling her to go out into the world and seek her fortune, and that in time she will marry a Prince. We next see her as she leaves the palace of her father and goes away to a farm, where she meets some good peasants, who take her in and give her employment. One day while she is tending a herd of sheep she is surprised to see a splendid looking young man coming on horseback towards her. It is Prince Charming whom the Fairy Queen sends to woo her. After promising to come to repeat his visit he takes leave and the maiden goes back to the cottage. In the next picture we see Prince Charming coming with a large staff of attendants to make love to her. He peeks through the keyhole of her room, and sees her making preparations for her coming wedding, and he does not disturb her, but returns home. The last thing that she does is to bake a wedding cake and, under the guidance of the Fairy, she puts her ring in it. The cake is brought to the Prince and when he eats a piece he discovers the ring and is told that he will marry the one that it fits. We see him trying it on every lady in the court, but it will not fit any. Finally "Donkey Skin" is presented and when he tries it on her, to his deep satisfaction, it fits her perfectly. The concluding picture shows us the betrothal and the happy couple are surrounded by their friends, receiving the blessings of the bride's father.
- A woman receives her lover at home but the husband arrives having to hide him in a trunk. They go on a trip and the porters do not treat the trunk very well.
- A shopkeeper goes to the back of his shop for a moment. While he's gone a man and woman sneak in and steal several food item, then quickly leave before the shopkeeper's return. Once out of the store they look over all they've stolen, but, not being yet satisfied, they decide to return for more. Meanwhile, the shopkeeper has rigged a surprise for their next arrival.
- Outdoors on a snowy night, a group of revelers in fancy dress playfully throw snow at each other.
- Backward facing camera stunt story of a man coming out of the water.
- When a drunk traveler stops at an inn, several pranksters decide to rig up a surprise on his bed as a joke.
- A man says goodnight to his bride, but he sneaks back into the room to watch her undress. He discovers that not everything about her is as advertised.
- A young boy tries to stop a few bad men from doing bad things in Alice Guy's silent short from 1906.
- A short film documenting the wedding ceremony of Princess Ena to King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Showing the royal carriage, the royal procession through the streets to the palace steps, etc.
- A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.
- A group of thieves take a bank safe by entering the subways of Paris, but it will not turn out well.