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- Factory workers including child laborers walk towards a camera and interact with it.
- This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. Wave to Morecambe's seasiders in 1901, courtesy of this Mitchell and Kenyon tracking shot.
- The biggest English comedy hit of the year. The scene is laid on an English estate at the edge of a pond. A couple of laborers discover, protruding from the water a pair of female legs. They hasten to the rescue, secure a bench and a long plank so as to get out over the water to the point where the legs are sticking up. Just as they complete their preparations a policeman runs up and insists on going out to the rescue of the female in distress. He gallantly crawls out on the plank and seizes the shapely ankles. As he lifts up the legs it is apparent that the whole thing is an awful hoax for at the foot of the sham legs is a big sign bearing the word "RATS." To make the joke still stronger, the sign is no sooner out of the water than the plank gives way and the policeman is treated to a ducking in the water.
- In China at the turn of the 20th century there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked westerners and any Chinese who associated with Westerners. In this short, a Chinese government executioner prepares to behead a captured Boxer rebel.
- A donkey frightens a picnic party and children eat the remains.
- Edwardian workers at one of Rotherham's major employers react to the camera.
- Britons capture a Boer camp after a brief struggle.