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- The cathedral scene from Shaw's famous play.
- The Victoria Girls, appearing "in their famous dancing medley" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, sing and dance to popular songs "Diane" by Erno Rapee, "Rain" by Eugene Ford, and "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Francis Wheeler.
- Blake plays the neoclassical piece on the piano. The highest notes failed to record in this seminal experiment with synchronized sound.
- Singer Ethel Hook, sister of classical singer Clara Butt, sings in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Actor Bransby Williams appears as the miser in an excerpt of Dickens' novel Bleak House.
- A husband decides to teach his wife a lesson by feigning an affair with another woman over the phone.
- This experimental talking short shows Cantor in his vaudeville act.
- Prof. Gilbert Olives and his wife Marion are in Malaya to develop an antidote for snakebite. When Prof. Olives discovers that his wife is having an affair, he plans revenge against his wife and her lover.
- Charles Paton performs song "If Your Face Wants to Smile, We'll Let It In" as performed in the Lyceum Theater review "John Citizen's Lament".
- British music hall star Albert George Spink (1869-1947) appears with his dog Rosie as "Dandy George and Rosie" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound- on-film process.
- Short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process in which Capt. W. G. R. Hinchliffe (1894-1928) and Charles A. Levine (1897-1991) are interviewed at the Clapham Studios in London just before their return flight to the U.S.
- In a rare filmed record, the famed songwriters and vaudevillians perform. One of De Forest's earliest experimental sound films.
- Excerpt of the second act of opera "Rigoletto" with soprano Eva Leoni and company in short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, and premiered at the Rivoli Theater in New York City on 15 April 1923.
- British music hall star Norah Blaney plays piano and sings "He's Funny That Way" and "How About Me?" in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- The Ben Bernie and All the Lads band, featuring pianist Oscar Levant, perform songs by Vincent Youmans and George Gershwin in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- Short excerpt of the stage musical Sensations of 1927, written by composer Lawrence Wright, and filmed in the DeForest Phonofilm process.
- British music hall entertainer Dick Henderson sings "That Makes Me Love Her All the More".
- British music hall comedians Teddy Elben and the Irish Jewzaleers perform the title song in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- A burglar is held up by a girl who is a burglar herself.
- Famous xylophonist Teddy Brown performs a song on the xylophone in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- British music hall star Harry Shalson sings "You Go Too Far" in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- If it is what I think it is then it is a very funny sketch with Rob Wilton playing a fire service officer. Available on YouTube and well worth a look. Only lasts a few minutes
- George Bernard Shaw speaks in a short film made by Lee De Forest in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Music hall star Jack Hodges sings song "To See If My Dreams Come True" for short film produced in the sound-on-film DeForest Phonofilm process.
- British music hall stars, brothers Harry and Max Nesbitt, perform in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- British music hall star Dick Henderson performs the song "I Want a Pie With a Plum In" by Wal Clifford in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.