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- A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.
- The execution of Topsy, a female elephant, in a publicity stunt advertising the opening of Luna Park on Coney Island. Topsy was originally owned by Forepaugh Circus where she killed a drunken spectator who burned the tip of her trunk with a cigar. She was sold to Sea Lion Park in 1902 which was then sold to new owners who turned it into Luna Park. After they decided they could no longer handle her, the owners of Luna Park announced they would hang Topsy, leading to an outcry by the ASPCA. The owners then decided they would electrocute the elephant, with a backup plan of feeding her cyanide-laced carrots and strangling her with a cable.
- A fireman rushes into a carriage to rescue a woman from a house fire. He breaks the windowpanes and carries the woman to safety; after dangerous and uncertain moments he also saves the woman's son.
- Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not leave, but Eliza flees with her child. After getting some help to escape the slave traders who are looking for her, she then must try to cross the icy Ohio River if she wants to be free. Meanwhile, Tom is sold from one master to another, and his fortunes vary widely.
- This short film shows a panoramic view of Manhattan Island, as it appeared in 1903. The island is viewed from the North River (Hudson River), and the view moves down the west side of the island towards The Battery. Both the waterfront and the skyline behind it are shown.
- A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.
- Here is seen a number of "Smokes" dancing for their favorite "watermelion," and they pound the floor with their cinderellas to beat the band. The luscious fruit is held by one of their number in plain view, and they finally stop dancing and engage in a tussle to see who can obtain the green fruit and devour it. Very lively and funny.
- The fakir with his trick monkey is seated on the pavement in a street in Cairo. He plays a tom-tom, while the monkey dances the couchee-couchee. The movements of the monkey are very comical. (Taken on the winter cruise of the S. S. "Auguste Victoria" of the Hamburg-American Line, leaving New York on 03 Feb 1903.)
- Push-cart vendors are told to move on by a policeman.
- Happy Hooligan and his hurdy gurdy playing friend are making a lot of racket outside, so the concierge is trying to get them to leave.
- An organ-grinder is playing beneath the window of a cranky old woman. She objects strenuously. The organ-grinder, egged on by Hooligan, keeps on playing until a policeman appears. The organ man runs away, but Hooligan stops to explain. In the meantime, the old lady comes to the window with a pail of water and ducks the policeman. Hooligan, of course, gets all the blame and is carried off to jail.
- An engaged couple, dressed in white, meet each other at a train station. When the train arrives, they get on board, and they enjoy the sights from the platform on the last car. The workers on the train are eager to help, and they make some special arrangements for the couple.
- In this picture is shown the huntsmen feeding their dogs after the hunt. A thoroughly good picture, full of animation.
- The scene is in a free and easy cafe. Young men and girls are sitting about chatting and drinking. In comes a typical Western cowboy, who proceeds to "shoot up" the place. He smashes most of the bric-a-brac and has everyone terror-stricken. He forces the bartender to stand on his head, and then insists upon one of the girls doing the same. The girl goes behind a screen and apparently obeys orders, for a couple of trim ankles are seen over the top of the screen. The cowboy thrusts the screen aside and is astonished to see the clever girl waving a couple of artificial stocking forms in the air, she giving him the laugh, and fortunately he appreciates the joke.
- A woman riding a train must contend with the unwelcome advances of a male passenger.
- Kit Carson is captured by Indians and tied to a tree in the Indian village. An Indian maiden helps him make his escape.
- A fine panoramic view of this busy market on a Friday morning. Immense throngs of people are passing along the stands and making their purchases of fish. A great character-study. - from the Edison Catalog
- A stationary camera looks down several sets of tracks; workmen are on either side. A train comes into view: engine, with engineer leaning out, coal car, and four passenger cars. In the upper left of the frame, the moon shines next to a few clouds. The rest of the sky is dark. The train sweeps by. Someone waves from between a couple of the cars. The look is spectral, because we're seeing a print of the negative.
- Taken on the Lehigh Valley R. R., near Towanda, Pa., in a beautiful valley along the Susquehanna River. The train is seen approaching at a speed of seventy miles an hour. As it draws near, the engine whistle warns some section hands who are working in the foreground. Just as she passes another train dashes by in the opposite direction.
- Shows a young black boy and a white boy in a lively set-to. They finally collapse in the centre of the ring after they have fought themselves to a stand-still. The referee proceeds to count them both out, and the seconds empty buckets of water on the fighters.
- Georgetown is a silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a camera that pans the scenery and, when the train goes around curves, looks ahead to see the engine and passenger cars: the passengers wave hundreds of white handkerchiefs out of the train's left-side windows for the benefit of the camera. The town comes into view; the tracks are above the town, so the camera looks down on dozens of modest rooftops as it pans the area.