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- An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
- Smith casts his wife as a sluttish housewife who is mutilated by lighting her oven with paraffin.
- A humorous subject intended to be run as a part of a railroad scene during the period in which the train is passing through a tunnel.
- A man and woman are flirting when a professor turns on an X-ray machine, revealing their insides. After turning it off again the two have a dispute and break up.
- A boy looks through glasses at various objects, seen magnified.
- Short war film dramatizing the final engagement of the Shangani Patrol and the death of Major Allan Wilson and his men in Rhodesia in 1893.
- In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle. The other is a chimney sweep, and he's swinging what may be a bag of flour, but when it breaks open, it's clearly something else. Well into the havoc, spectators gather and give chase to the flour-covered sweep and the "well-sooted" miller.
- A re-enactment using actors of the recent coronation of Britain's King Edward VII.
- A girl gives a spoonful of medicine to a kitten.
- This is one of the earliest films to be shot in India - it was filmed in 1899. The film apparently shows the Kolkata (Calcutta) ghats as seen from the perspective of a boat travelling along the Hooghly river, a tributary of the Ganges. However, although the film's title states that this is Calcutta, the footage was in fact shot in the holy city of Varanasi (also on the Ganges). The filmmaker from the Warwick Trading Company clearly had a short memory or a limited sense of geography.
- An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that he focuses on the ankle of a young woman who is a short distance away. Her husband catches the gent looking. What will the two men now do?
- A man dreams he is flirting with an attractive young lady, then he wakes up in bed next to his wife.
- Brother and sister are sent to bed on Christmas Eve, and while they are asleep, Santa Claus comes down the chimney and fills their waiting stockings with toys.
- A commissioner's influence causes a savage to buy European clothes and go to church.
- The ghost of a man's twin shows him a vision of how he was killed in a duel.
- Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young.
- A cleverly conceived picture of a little boy and girl with building blocks. The little girl has erected a pretty structure, which the boy proceeds to demolish with pokes of his fingers. When the demolition of the house is completed, the film is shown in reverse, and the little building comes back to its original form in a most marvellous manner.
- Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.
- Children playing at "doctors" with the kitten in a cradle as patient. When the medicine is administered a magnified view of the kitten's head is shown, the manner in which the little animal receives its dose (of milk) is from a spoon.
- Evans plays the banjo, but mostly performs acrobatics.
- An old lady takes snuff and sews.
- A monk tells brother a naughty story.
- Scenes of the coronation ceremonies of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
- Ladies in fancy dress with their pet dogs on parade in the Botanical Gardens, Regents Park, London.