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- The 16 July 1905 departure of polar explorer Robert Peary on one of his expeditions to the North Pole aboard the specially designed ship Roosevelt.
- Very early music "sound film." Alice Gay uses a chronophone recording of Armand Dranem singing "5 O'Clock Tea" and then films him lip-syncing to the music.
- Mystic Shriners parade. Costumed, pedestrian marchers, and horse-mounted participants pass the stationary camera, in 1905.
- Reenactment of the 18-round lightweight championship fight between defender Jimmy Britt and challenger Battling Nelson, held on September 9, 1905 in Colma, California. Britt is depicted in the black and white trunks.
- Lowell, Massachusetts: a stationary camera records the St. Patrick's Day parade on a muddy street. With formidable buildings in the background, lots of male dignitaries pass on horseback, wearing silk top hats and sashes, some carrying bouquets of flowers. Interspersed is the occasional marching band - a bugle corps, a fife and drum band, and a brass band. There's a carriage or two, and several platoons of soldiers, marching in lines, their rifles over their shoulders. After the parade ends, we cut to a solitary older man in black leaving a church and walking past our vantage. He tips his hat.
- A panoramic shot of New York City's Pennsylvania Station during its construction, filmed 19 July 1905, includes narrow gauge railway action.
- A man wins a girl by pretending to take poison.
- Based on a scene from Shakespeare's play: Macbeth, king of Scotland, is challenged by his rival Macduff.
- A low-rent traveling theater troupe performs a very bad version of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. The theater manager steals the box office proceeds and the performers have to walk back to New York.
- A man in black tie and tails enters a high-society parlor where a settee sits beneath an open window. He goes to the window and gestures to someone. From outside, a man in a burglar's outfit (watch cap, wide striped shirt, and dark jacket) appears and gets his instructions from the man in tails. A woman wearing a jeweled tiara enters with a second man who leaves her in the company of our mastermind. He sits her on the settee, chats her up, leaning toward her with one arm curling behind her head. He lifts off the tiara and waves it out the window for his partner in crime. Will she miss it? Will she catch them in the act?
- A newsboy exchanges babies in prams.
- Based loosely on the nursery rhyme: A fair is in progress, with refreshments, entertainment, and other activities. As the rest of the crowd is watching one of the acts, Tom steals a pig and runs off. He tries to hide, but he is chased by the crowd, and the pig also proves difficult to control. But Tom has some tricks up his sleeve that might give him a chance to escape.
- 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 rooster sits on its perch, crows, and flaps its wings.
- A black and white short film documenting a large group of people.
- A very large woman, wearing a shift, stands beside a bed and tries to put on a corset. After failing to get it around her, she calls her husband in. He stands behind her holding the corset and reaches around her so she can grasp and begin to tie it in front. He tightens the laces in back. She's done, and he's done in, collapsing onto the bed as she laughs and laughs at him.