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- A coal miner says good-bye to his wife and children, and heads off to work. He reaches the mine, prepares his lamp, and then descends into the mine along with some other workers. As he and the others work inside the mine, the coal is sent to the surface, where others at the mining site are ready to process the coal and to prepare it for shipping.
- This entrancing story, drawn from the world-renowned tragedy of Goethe, opens in the mysterious working den of Dr. Faust, who, old and worn out with years of stern study, and on the verge of despair through longing for the pleasures of his bygone youth, all of which he has surrendered to his learning, thinks of resorting to in order to end the weariness of his declining days. He, however, dashes down the cup at the last moment, and calls upon the infernal powers to aid him. Immediately Mephistopheles appears and offers him youth and pleasure in exchange for the surrender of his soul. Faust, dazzled by the splendor of the vision which is to him by his alluring companion, accepts the compact, signs the fatal paper, and is at once transformed into a handsome young man. Mephistopheles then shows Faust the beautiful Marguerite, and immediately he falls desperately in love with the innocent girl. Finally, aided by the perfidious suggestions of his companion, Faust succeeds is in winning the heart of poor Marguerite. Valentine, eager to revenge his sister's honor, is killed in a duel by Faust, who seeks safety in flight. Betrayed, deserted, demented from sorrow, the unfortunate Marguerite is thrown into a dungeon and left to her grief. Meanwhile, Mephistopheles endeavors to make Faust forget the unhappy girl, but in vain; love has overcome the powers of evil, and all his magic is In vain. Faust hastens to the prison and seeks Marguerite; his passionate words of love restore her for a moment to reason, but only for a moment. She is just able to offer him forgiveness, and then dies in his arms. Rarely has there been a better representation of this wonderful drama. The pitiful story of Marguerite and Faust makes its appeal to all humanity, and words cannot add to its charm and effectiveness.
- "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 girl escapes her governess and pushes her pursuers in the river.
- A fairy helps selfish children find the bird of happiness.
- Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
- The series of pictures, which is entitled "The Fly Pest," shows flies (as big as Plymouth Rock hens, as they appear on the screen) laying eggs in putrid meat; the eggs in white masses: the maggots in writhing heaps as they emerge from the eggs, and in different stages of their growth as maggots, until they burrow in the dirt to enter the pupa state; the pupa; (or grubs) themselves, one day later; flies emerging from the filth, at first wingless; then the perfect adult fly. Then follow pictures, stretching across the screen, of a fly taking a sip of honey from the point of a needle, showing the action of the proboscis, very like an elephant's trunk in miniature; of the tongue, and of the foot, also enormously enlarged, and with every microscopic hair distinct. The second act of this little life-history is entitled: "How Flies Carry Contagion." In it these scenes follow one another in rapid succession, so that the most thoughtless spectator cannot fail to grasp their full significance: Flies swarming on putrid fish: crawling over lumps of sugar: in a cuspidor; on the nipple of a baby's feeding bottle; and, last of all, a pretty baby placidly sucking the mouthpiece from which the flies have just departed.
- A mischievous four-year-old girl tricks a tramp, policeman and doctor.
- A doctor is chased when he takes the wrong hat containing money.
- A wife holds a burglar at pistol point while she telephones her husband.
- A girl robs a colonel and eludes a detective by posing as a curio dealer.
- A coster frames a flowergirl for stealing a sailor's purse.
- A man wins a girl by saving the life of a starving kitten.
- 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 man's ruses to extort £500 from his rich uncle.
- A sailor returns from a shipwreck to find his wife remarried.
- A suspicious husband thrashes his wife's visitor, her brother.
- Tilly the Tomboy and her pseudo-angelic friend are at it again. This time, they visit a bedridden woman, steal a truck and turn a bakery upside down in their pursuit of mischief.
- A man saves his room-mate's girl from cows and wins her despite a jealous plot.
- Four-year-old Willy Sanders demonstrates his boxing and wrestling skills against a much larger opponent.
- A small child traps a tramp in the cellar while her father fetches the police.
- A detective tracks a girl through fingerprints on a forged note.
- A man poses as a boy to sell broken chine to Jews.
- A burglar is reformed when he poses as a conjurer at a children's party.
- A framed clerk's fiancée trails a thief and locks him in.
- This most interesting and instructive film illustrates as no words can do the degree of perfection to which ancient Moorish architecture attained during the time when Morocco held Spain in subjugation, that is to say, in the 13th century. First, we see a superb panorama of the ancient city of Granada and then the details of its masterpiece of architectural art the "Alhambra," the palace of the Moorish kings, with its "Lions Courtyard," paved with white marble the lions being carved out of solid blocks of black marble. Then we are shown the "Myrtle Courtyard" and at the back the "Mirador, or Look-Out" balcony whence a splendid panoramic view of Granada and surroundings is obtained. The film closes with familiar scenes of Spanish gypsy life, a wedding followed by rejoicings and dances.
- A henpeck hides his winnings inside a hat and his wife sells it.
- A doctor's daughter elopes with a clown whose rival takes his place and shoots her.
- Lieutenant Rose escapes capture, unmasks a Moor posing as a sailor and shells a town.
- A bald bachelor dons a wig and raffles himself.
- A drunkard reforms after burgling the home of a rich man who adopted his child.
- A couple eat noisy cockerel and start crowing.
- John Bull's home is invaded by an Italian, Russian and Frenchman.
- A bumpkin wins the only girl in the village by making sausages out of his rivals.
- A society reporter breaks into a dentist's home by mistake.
- Life in prison when Winston Churchill's Reform Bill passed.
- Misadventures of a film company producing 'The Heroic Policeman'.
- A miserly father is fooled by his disguised son and daughter.