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- A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.
- From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.
- The fiend faces the spectacular mind-bending consequences of his free-wheeling rarebit binge.
- Two members of a gang write a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding that he give them money, or else they will harm his family and his shop. The butcher is afraid and upset, but he is unable to meet their demands. The gang then kidnaps his daughter, leading to a series of tense and dangerous confrontations.
- Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are included. We see fire raging. We see burned-out buildings, piles of rubble, and buildings with only one wall standing. People stand and watch; others walk purposely through the debris. A carriage passes; the camera pans the desolation. A horse-drawn cart is laden with a family's remaining possessions. A sign hangs outside one building: "A little disfigured but still in business. Men Wanted."
- A jealous husband arrives in the office of Hawkshaw, a private detective. The husband is certain that his wife is being unfaithful, and he wants the detective to produce photographic evidence. The detective tails the wife, and thinks he has caught her, but a sudden mishap prevents him from getting a photo. Despite this and further setbacks, the dedicated detective presses on, determined to fulfill his assignment.
- Footage of the devastation caused by the earthquake and fires that, in the words of Jack London, "completely destroyed" San Francisco on the morning of April 18th, 1906.
- Footage of the aftermath of the great San Francisco earthquake, which struck on the morning of April 18, 1906, destroying a large part of the city.
- A cowboy gets involved in the kidnapping and rescue of a pretty young girl.
- This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco is set ablaze and filmed.
- A father forbids his daughter to marry her fiance and orders him out of the house, so the fiance arranges for the couple to elope--and with angry dad hot on their tail, for an unorthodox wedding ceremony.
- A large group of boys and girls enjoy a sleigh ride, have a snowball fight, and frolic in the snow.
- A young couple conducts a series of robberies, followed by a chase, in which they are shot and killed.
- Images of a rose, a young woman, and the American flag.
- Highlights of the Cubs-White Sox Series.
- Immigrants and boats departing and arriving at Ellis Island.
- A championship fight that took place in the Nevada goldfields between boxers Joe Gans and Battling Nelson.
- A young man is hired as a guard for an insane asylum. Immediately the inmates start harassing him and he flees. The inmates give chase and they finally capture him and tie him up. The director of the asylum arrives and gives each patient a pie, which they sit down to eat and forget all about the guard.
- In order to attend a baseball game he desperately wants to see, an office worker tells his boss a phony story about a family emergency in order to get the day off. However, things don't work out quite the way he planned.