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- The fiend faces the spectacular mind-bending consequences of his free-wheeling rarebit binge.
- Three friends go on a trip and decided to rest at an abandoned house. Everything seems pretty normal until really weird things start to happen.
- A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.
- Two travelers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil.
- A British trick film in which a motorist ends up driving around the rings of Saturn.
- A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.
- In a society in which gender roles are switched, will men tolerate being unequal?
- Originally 70 minutes in running time, only 17 minutes of the world's first full-length narrative feature film survived in stills and other fragments and tell the story of Ned Kelly, an infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw.
- A penniless troubadour consults the Fairy Carabosse about his future but offends her by paying with a bag of sand.
- Sound asleep in his comfortable armchair next to a high-pressure retort, a mystic silver-haired alchemist can't even notice the strange manifestations emerging from the vessel's bottom. Is this a dream, or a cornucopia of secreted desires?
- 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.
- A man tries to shave, but his mirror keeps playing tricks on him.
- 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."
- The life of Jesus Christ in 25 scenes.
- An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.
- The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an evil magician, steals the lamp for himself. Aladdin must regain the lamp or lose everything.
- Images of a rose, a young woman, and the American flag.
- An upper class lady goes to the post office and takes her maid with her to help with the stamp affixing.
- A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they reach land, a sailor who died during the mutiny is made a martyr, inspiring an uprising in the city. Then the authorities decide to repress the revolt with a brutal show of force.
- 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 look at typical activities taking place in the Peek Frean factory: First, the workers get up steam, as supplies of milk and flour arrive. Sheets of dough are rolled, then cut, shaped, and readied for baking. The camera then continues to show further events throughout the work day.
- A large group of boys and girls enjoy a sleigh ride, have a snowball fight, and frolic in the snow.
- A composer alone in his music room has a better imagination while asleep than awake.
- An unfortunate man has quite the tumble in a barrel.
- A gang of cutthroats set ablaze a farmhouse after killing the farmer and stealing the proceeds of his sales. Captured and tried for his crimes, the pitiless plunderer faces death by guillotine, but first, a night of pure agony awaits.
- 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.
- Comedy is benefited by originality. In this Alice Guy short, an alcoholic is inadvertently sewn in to a mattress. With that unique premise, havoc ensues.
- All it takes is a tumble from a photographer's assistant, and his backdrop and equipment crashes out the window onto the street. Confusion ensues.
- Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out and begin to perform a series of routines.
- A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.
- Four prisoners, in convicts' stripes, march backwards down stairs and, under the watchful eyes of guards, hop backwards into their cells. Later, one overpowers a guard and springs his three pals. But, will they be able to pull off an escape? Other guards come to the aid of their fallen comrade before all four felons can flee. Guards and convicts spring forward and backward out of cells, up and down stairs, and into and out of freedom.
- An entomologists is found guilty for trying to collect rare insects.
- Some mattress makers take a break from their work to drink in the saloon. While they're gone a tramp climbs into the mattress to warm himself. When the mattress makers come back they sew the tramp inside the mattress. This leads to a disastrous scene of the tramp running wildly around, causing confusion.
- A magician performs a magic show involving women turning into bouquets of roses. Later the roses are festooned together in a fancy way to decorate the stage.
- Professor Do-mi-sol-do is trying to practice music, but his instruments and music stand begin to provoke him.
- A young enslaved chimney sweep named Jack finds a box of jewels in a chimney which restores his well-being.
- Felix Mayol performs in color.
- When a drunk traveler stops at an inn, several pranksters decide to rig up a surprise on his bed as a joke.
- A shepherd fights with his wife and storms out of their cottage. Falling asleep he is visited by apparitions who taunt him. Waking up, he regrets the fight and makes up.
- From the point of view of the front end of a train, a group of robbers on a handcar rob the train and murder one of its crew.
- Alice Guy (later known as Alice Guy-Blaché) tackles the subject of bad parenting in this dramatic, tear-jerking short.
- A diver dives into a pond. By the use of running the reel backwards, the diver appears to jump out backwards. He does this 10 times total, sometimes doing an elaborate flip, or jumping in with his back towards the camera.
- Some children are watching the Punch and Judy puppet show when the puppeteers, in their excitement, let the puppets fall out onto the floor, where they turn into to small midgets that grow into normal people. This leads to a scene where the manager is bombed with fruit by the audience.
- A soldier meets a girl on a stroll and offers to carry her basket. But when they encounter his superior officer, his superior takes over and escorts the girl, until he, in turn, runs into a higher ranking officer. And on so it goes.
- Short documentary of the dirigible coming out of the hangar and flying.
- A parish priest and his parishioners can't afford the a baby Jesus for their Nativity Scene, so they pray for one and angels and the Virgin Mary appear to answers their prayers.
- A shopkeeper goes to the back of his shop for a moment. While he's gone a man and woman sneak in and steal several food item, then quickly leave before the shopkeeper's return. Once out of the store they look over all they've stolen, but, not being yet satisfied, they decide to return for more. Meanwhile, the shopkeeper has rigged a surprise for their next arrival.
- 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.
- Captain Clearfield, a wealthy landlord, assaults Kathleen with the help of an accomplice, but Terence O'More arrives in time to break up the attack. Clearfield then tries to get his way by intimidating Kathleen and her father, but again help arrives in time. Clearfield and his accomplice then come up with their most violent plan yet.
- When there is a prize involved, folks will do just about anything. Run an obstacle course? Of course! Madness ensues.