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- A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- Here is a picture that is extremely laughable. An old man is indulging in a dream, which dream is demonstrated in the picture. It shows him in a restaurant partaking of a sumptuous meal and a bottle of wine with a soubrette. There is a sudden awakening, however, and in an apparently disgusted mood, he finds himself in his own bed and his wife endeavoring to induce him to get up and build the fire.
- Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowing on cinematographic methods reminiscent of 'Georges Melies', Porter uses animation, double exposure, and trick photography to illustrate the fairy's apparitions, Jack's dream, and the fast growing beanstalk.
- A young couple go shopping for a baby.
- Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput, the inhabitants of which are no more than six inches tall. He later travels to Brobdingnag, a country populated by giants.
- A poor young girl tries to sell matches in a snowstorm. After being robbed by bullies, she lights matches which illuminate visions of a far happier Christmas than the one she faces.
- Robinson Crusoe and Friday fight with hostile natives, and eventually retire to their jungle cottage to relax.
- A woman performs a music hall act with her extremely well-trained dogs.
- Dissatisfied with his life, a desperate man decides to make an unholy pact with the Devil, ignoring the seven deadly sins.
- This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place during the eruption are plain to be seen. Thousands upon thousands of tons of molten lava, sand, rocks and steam are thrown high in the air and descend with crushing force upon the unfortunate inhabitants of the doomed city of St. Pierre. This is the worst calamity which occurred since a similar eruption by Mt. Vesuvius when Pompeii was destroyed.
- An ancient tower, in which is seated the magician, occupies the centre of the stage. On either side of the tower is a statue. The magician waves his hands and the tower and both statues disappear. He then removes his coat and seats himself upon a chair. On one side of the chair, two figures, each an exact counterpart of himself, appear. On the other side a third figure, also an exact counterpart of himself, appears. The figures then run up the wall, one of them balancing itself upon the head of the magician, and the others stand on their heads in the palms of his hands. The figures are then turned into flags, which the magician waves and throws aside as he makes his exit.
- The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth. Satan, who has made his way into the chateau, puts the seven bags in a strong box, and makes with his hands some cabalistic motions. The miser comes into the hall and is greatly astonished to find his fortune missing. He opens the coffer and immediately the bags leap out. He gathers them up and puts them back into the coffer. When he opens it again he finds that they have been transformed into seven young girls, who rush out and chase after him, beating him unmercifully. They shut him up in the coffer from which his gold has vanished. The miser pushes open the lid of the coffer, and to his profound despair finds that both young girls and money have disappeared. (This view is most sensational in its mysterious scenes.)
- A happy family is brought to ruin when the father starts drinking.
- Two comical looking Germans are engaged in a bologna eating contest. The battle wages hot until one of the Dutchman discovers that his piece of bologna is bad, a trick evidently played on him by his opponent. The contest then ends in a mix up, in which, as usual, the victim gets the worst of it.
- Panoramic view taken from the Suspension Railway at Barmen and Elbefeld, Germany. A marvelous example of engineering work.
- One of the most realistic train pictures ever offered. Taken on the Auburn division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and shows one of the company's largest rotary snowplows, propelled by three powerful engines, plowing through an immense drift of snow.
- An early adaptation of the Ali Baba tale.
- Three little youngsters, none of them over three years of age, have been placed in the basin of a fountain on a private lawn. The water is turned on, and the antics of the babies as the cool water strikes them are very amusing. One cries, another laughs, and the third is bewildered.
- Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.
- A baker's assistant throws a handful of dough at a rat. The dough sticks to the side of a barrel and the assistant proceeds to sculpt the dough into various faces and shapes. There is some experimental use of stop motion.
- Short actuality film which documents the passage of a Ringling Brothers circus parade through a prosperous Black community in Indianapolis.
- A simple serpentine dance by Fuller.
- Two painters are working just above a group of soldiers, just as the commanding officer enters. One little slip with a paint bucket, and hilarity ensues.
- A couple invites an old lady at home, after having seen her outside under the snow. The lady turns into a fairy and cast a spell to transform the winter season by spring.
- This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks all the eggs into a hat, and after having beaten them up after the manner of a cook, he extracts an egg as large as the hat itself. As soon as he sets this egg on the table there appears a tiny dancing girl, full of life, as big as a baby's doll, and who performs on the table some beautiful stage dances. All of a sudden she increases to the size of a ordinary woman, and jumping on the floor she delights the audience with her turns. The juggler and the dancing girl disappear in the most extraordinary way.
- Diving and swimming, at the famous "Seebad," near Berlin.
- In this early adaptation of the Odyssey, three Olympian goddesses compete for beauty.
- A re-enactment using actors of the recent coronation of Britain's King Edward VII.
- The Washington Star of April 1st, 1900, gave the following account of the ceremony: "Over 40,000 women and children passed through the White House Gates to-day during the hours set apart for the great National show of Egg Rolling, and when the President stepped on the south front gallery at 4:15 P.M., at least 20,000 were within the grounds. The Marine Band rendered a programme of popular music. The President's children entertained at least fifty young friends during the day with a view of the egg rolling from the balcony, but none of them mingled with the great throng, preferring to view the panorama from the distance. They were much amused with the antics of the great crowd of children, who were of all colors and from every walk of life."
- Scene Bowery. Young woman drops her handkerchief while passing a Rube. He picks it up and gives it to her. She induces him to go into a side door of a saloon. Second scene, saloon. Rube and woman enter, take seats at table and order drinks. While the Rube is paying for same, woman puts knock-out drops in the Rube's glass. They drink and the Rube falls asleep. Woman takes all his valuables and leaves. Waiter wakes him up. He discovers his watch gone, fights with waiter, and is thrown out. Third scene, outside of saloon. Police patrol drawn up. They put Rube in and drive off.
- A girl looks through her grandpa's glasses at various objects, which are shown magnified.
- Three girls are taking a bath in a quiet, shady spot along a beautiful stream. Another young lady in bathing attire reclines on the bank. The latter suddenly discovers two hoboes coming toward the bathers and immediately gives the alarm. They throw water over the hoboes, who gather up the clothes of the fair bathers and make off, compelling the bathers to walk home in barrels. In order to conceal themselves as much as possible they hold the barrels rather high.
- The buffalo, or bison, once so numerous on the plains of the Great West, is rapidly becoming an almost extinct species, and so far as known there are no wild herds left. Some years ago the United States Government placed a herd in the Yellowstone National Park, and the efforts to increase it by outside purchases and to corral them where they can be fed and protected is meeting with considerable success. They are corralled in an enormous pasture at Mammoth Hot Springs and appear to take kindly to the situation. Our artist succeeded in getting a splendid picture of these most interesting animals, from which a fair idea may be gained of the appearance presented in times past by a herd of buffalo grazing on the plains of the Far West.
- A beautiful picture. Ducks are swimming about, and make a very pretty effect. The picture shows several hundred white ducks. Full of life and action and sure to please.
- A most astounding film, showing a lady with three heads. These are taken away one after the other, and seem to be quite as lively when separated from the body as they were when united. The conjuror who is performing the trick also removes his own head without suffering any inconvenience, and walks about without it. There are also any number of other changes in this film, which has to be seen to be fully appreciated.
- A despondent-looking man sits behind a table that holds a drink and a gun. He hesitates, thinks things over, starts to take a drink, and then puts down the glass. Then he picks up the gun, raises it to his temple, and ...
- A businessman makes a luncheon appointment with a young lady, but finds that his wife disapproves of the arrangement.
- The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth is suddenly transformed into a beautiful girl, clad in tights. A barrel is then introduced and the girl enters one end. As she makes her exit from the other she is transformed into a man. The man then jumps through a paper hoop, and as he lands on the other side is changed back into the girl. The girl is then placed upon a table, the table is removed, and, to the astonishment of all, she remains in her position, apparently resting in mid-air. Two benches are then introduced and chairs placed under them, a man occupying one and the girl the other. At a wave of the magician's wand the figures fade away. When they reappear the girl and the man have changed places. Wonderful magic.
- A stationary camera captures a crowd of children and adults tossing eggs or watching the fun, with white and black children present. Two women in the distance appear to be organizers, while a young man plays catch.
- One of the sights of the Cog Road is the little toboggan the workmen use for coming down the road after the trains have all departed for the day. This toboggan is simply a board with a fin that runs between the two track rails. A piece of pipe extending across the outer rails acts as a sort of guide or outrigger. A friction brake runs between the racks. When a man is seated on this flimsy affair he can drop down the hill three miles a minute if he so desires. A trail of fire shoots out behind him and instant death with horrible mangling follows a single hitch.
- A comic picture that defies description. It depicts the Twentieth Century up-to-date tramp flying over the chimney tops of New York City in the latest improved flying machine. Weary Willie has the indispensible tin can hanging from his waist and he waves his hands to his friends as he flies along. He passes over the top of the Equitable Life building and other New York sky scrapers. He flies over the East River and clears the top of the Brooklyn Bridge, and appears to be making his way toward Staten Island. When he is about in the centre of the river, his flying machine explodes, and like the unfortunate McGinty, down goes Weary William. This picture is most mystifying and humorous.
- An amusing scene in which the giant, Constantin, interrupts a party of merry-makers in a cafe. He is so very tall that a woman standing on top of one of the tables does not reach his shoulder; and when he drinks he has a beer glass that holds a gallon.
- In this film, we show the interior of a doctor's office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great pain. The doctor tells him that he is troubled with acute indigestion, and immediately places him upon the operating table. He begins his treatment by cutting off the patient's arms and legs with a huge saw. After removing these members, he takes a large knife and makes an incision in the unfortunate's stomach large enough to put his arm in. He then removes such things as bottles, knives and forks, lamps and other articles of furniture from the patient's body. The patient evidently complains of the great pain he is suffering, and to relieve this the doctor cuts off his head and places it upon a near-by chair. Next a large water pump is brought into play, and after pumping about two gallons of water from the stomach of the patient the doctor sews up the wound, which heals immediately, then places the head back in its place. He next attempts to adjust the man's legs and arms in their proper places, but in his hurry a leg is placed where an arm should be, and vice versa. After discovering his mistake he corrects it, and the man, entirely cured of his trouble, rises from the table and after paying the doctor his fee departs from the office in great glee.