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- An old maid lovingly feeding her pet dog is disturbed by the entrance of the postman, who hands her a registered letter. After having read the contents of the missive the old dame astonishes the letter-carrier, waiting for his tip, by throwing herself on his neck and telling him between showers of kisses, that her only relation having just died, she is left sole heir to his fortune, which is immense. The next scene shows us madam and her dog at the lawyer's office and quite gratified by the marked attention paid to her, as well as to her ordinarily much disliked dog, by all the male representatives of the room, including the boss. She receives her money and departs. The lawyer, however, a stout old gentleman, rushes out after her, and arrives in the old maid's den puffed out but full of courage, for after a few comic efforts to be graceful, he flops on his knees before lady and dog and discloses his burning passion for both. He is evidently a very ardent lover for in the next picture we see him coming out of the church arm in arm with the one he saw but a few days previously for the first time. But the charm his new home had for him does not seem to have lasted very long, for we see him in the next scene getting royally drunk with some friends at the café from which he returns at a late hour, furious at having been laughed at for marrying an old maid. He enters his home in a towering rage, frightens his better half and her dog out of the room, and after smashing all that comes within reach of his stick, departs with the money bag. The last scene shows us the eight days' heiress back in her old quarters, crying bitterly over the loss of her money but consoled at the thought that, after all, things might have been a great deal worse, if, instead of her husband, her pet dog had forsaken her.
- Shakespeare, in his study, attempts to compose the murder scene in "Julius Caesar" with unsatisfactory results. A vision gives him the inspiration he needs to write the scene properly.
- Swiftly passing through seas of floating ice, a vessel with masts, spars and decks entirely covered with ice is seen pushing its way northward. Seagulls make the air black, and the crew, clothed in heavy furs, move lively, on the lookout for walrus, seal and Polar bear. Within full view are seen in rapid succession seals disporting themselves on the icy brink of bergs. Walrus, with their immense tusks, are shown cavorting through the water, plunging after fish. The comical penguins in great numbers get in front of the camera at close range. The wonderful and mysterious musk-ox in his native haunts is shown life-size, and stamping his disapproval of being brought into such close proximity to man, his natural enemy. Then the critical dramatic moment arrives when the hunters leave their ship and start across the icy fields after his majesty of the Arctic regions. Soon is seen an enormous white Polar bear, slowly meandering in his search for provender. He discovers the hunters, rears on his hind feet, ready to give battle. A masterful shot striking a vital point fells him and he is seen rolling in his own life's blood. The hunters cautiously approach, and when fully convinced of the death of old Bruin, load him on their sleds and start for the ship. Finding the return trip too laborious, they unload their spoils and proceed to strip off the valuable, shaggy coat, remove a choice saddle of bear meat, and leaving the bare carcass freezing in the solitudes of the Arctic, trudge once more to their ship.
- Twenty-two songs from the opera Faust, presented in twenty-two reels, each about three minutes in duration. Images were synchronized with a recorded soundtracks using the Chronophone sound-on-disc system.
- Vesta Victoria sings "Poor John."
- A motorist has a breakdown at the entrance of a town where they have never seen a car before, and they ask each other for help to see what it is that has appeared.
- An eloping couple have a tumultuous honeymoon in Nova Scotia.
- In front of a round tent, a pasha is sitting on the grass; to the right of the tent's door, covered with a patterned blanket, is a flagpole - on top of which is an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film's logo]. The pasha claps hands, and a servant comes to his bid. The lord is going to smoke from his water-pipe while he buys some new slave girls. The servant calls the seller and his two henchmen, who bring forth four girls in patterned burnooses. The first is totally undressed [facing the Arab, not the camera], and sent into the tent; the next girl gets topless, and also sent into the tent; the third is forced to undress by the henchmen, and also sent inside. The fourth, apparently a younger girl, is dismissed by the Arab after showing her small, firm breasts, and she goes back with the henchmen. Follows an argument over the price, and finally the slave master goes away, happy. The servant must help the pasha up, and the lord goes to his tent. The curtain falls over the door - and stays - and stays.
- Two white hunters accompanied by their servant go hunting in the African jungle. They see various animals and shoot a lion.
- A modern days Diana comes to the border of a wood, near a water creek with canes, undresses, and places each clothing item on a tree branch. The camera shows her every movement, but also her reflection and those of the woods on the clear, moving waters. When she is going to lift up her white undershirt - the film teasingly ends.
- As a result of a stagecoach hold-up and other crimes, Buck Brady has become known locally as the "King of Bandits". The sheriff posts a $1000 reward for Brady, dead or alive. Soon a full-scale effort is underway to capture the bandit king.
- Jack and the daughter of a horse trainer are in love, but her father disapproves. preferring another suitor. They arrange a race to win her hand. But Jack's rival proves to be unscrupulous and will stop at nothing to be successful.
- A beautiful film of the opening ceremonies including a view of President Roosevelt pressing the electric button which started the big show in motion.
- A shopkeeper suffers the loss of some valuable merchandise, and thinks of a way to regain his losses.
- More than a dozen shots, some less than a second, of people wearing roller skates in various settings: a young man in skates sits on a low guardrail next to a city sidewalk reading, a woman with a child shoots by, a constable skates gingerly, a man skates by in suit and vest, another cleans front steps, children skate into a room where papa and siblings sit, someone slips at the base of stairs, a man in a cowboy hat moves fast, two jovial chubby women shake hands, our man in the hat trips over a wheelbarrow, then falls again as he rounds a corner, then down goes the constable. It's a crazy day on the city sidewalks.