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- Actor Bransby Williams appears as the miser in an excerpt of Dickens' novel Bleak House.
- This experimental talking short shows Cantor in his vaudeville act.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- In a rare filmed record, the famed songwriters and vaudevillians perform. One of De Forest's earliest experimental sound films.
- 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.
- Music hall star Tommy Lorne (1890-1935) performs "The Lard Song" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Musical group The Coney Island Six perform in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- The subject of this short film is taxation and tax reform
- 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".
- The Westminster Glee Singers, under the direction of Edward Branscombe, appear 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.
- 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.
- British music hall star Elga Collins sings "Ain't It Nice" and "Tonight You Belong to Me".
- A burglar is held up by a girl who is a burglar herself.
- Nervo and Knox perform their song and dance The Love of Phtohtenese (pronounced "Hot Knees").
- Alma Barnes, British comic billed as "the internationally famous mimic", performs excerpts of her music hall act in this short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Owner of the Granada Theatres chain, Sidney Bernstein, introduces the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, in a short film shown in the premiere program of Phonofilm in England at the Empire Cinema in London on 4 October 1926.
- A rookie officer has trouble with the RSM.
- 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.
- 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.
- Singer Ethel Hook, sister of classical singer Clara Butt, sings in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- British banjo duo Alvin and Kelvin Keech perform in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The Keech brothers are sometimes credited with inventing the banjulele, a hybrid of banjo and ukulele.