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- A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out?
- Satan appears in a convent and takes the guise of a priest. Before long he is causing all manner of perturbation and despair.
- King John does whatever it takes to keep himself on the throne of England, making enemies of the pope, France, and his nephew along the way.
- A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it.
- Dramatized re-enactments of the events of the Dreyfus-affair from 1894 to 1899.
- 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 devil conjures up a dancing woman from a mystical flame.
- "Showing a train crossing the iron structure that spans one of the deepest gorges in the White Mountains."
- A short black and white film which documents the activities of a little girl and her cat.
- A customer places an order at a cafe. While reading his newspaper he doesn't pay attention to the bottles brought by the waiter.
- Two women in long skirts, wearing hats, and carrying umbrellas, gossip beside a fence. Two men on the other side of the fence reach through from underneath and nail the women's skirts to the boards. Off the men run leaving the women to discover their fate. What will they do?
- In a square room, two men and two women, in white body-hugging clothes, try on wrestling holds, each with a partner of the same sex.
- A sleeping apartment of a friend who retires for the night. The rays of the moon are shining upon the bed through the window. He is suddenly awakened by a bug of gigantic proportions crawling over him. This he attacks and destroys, but before again retiring he notices three more climbing up the wall. He lights the candle and applies the flame to each, causing them to explode with fine smoke effect. After this slaughter he retires in contentment and soon sleeps the sleep of the just. A very funny subject.
- "Fourteen old timers driving one of the stakes which support the canvass of a circus tent."
- Similar to A Kiss in the Tunnel (1899), this remake omits the phantom ride scenes and chooses to portray a significantly steamier, more prolonged, and more explicit passion between a young couple. Surely, this is a kiss to remember.
- Parade of several groups of children and men in uniform.
- This is a railroad panorama taken from the view point of the pilot of a locomotive, and is unusually interesting. It takes the passenger over the complete trip from the station at Monte Carlo, around the curves overlooking the harbor to the station in the city of Monaco. Many beautiful villas are passed enroute.
- "The umpire makes a decision that Casey doesn't like, and an argument follows, during which Casey deftly trips him up, and continues the argument on the ground. The other players run from the bench and join in the rumpus. The fielders come running in and the pile on the home plate looks like a foot ball scrimmage. A solemn warning to all rotten umpires."
- Loie Fuller performs the serpentine dance.
- A stop-motion match makes a written appeal to the audience, asking them to send money that will go to matches for British soldiers fighting overseas.
- "A portly clubman comes home after a social session considerably the worse for the wear. In the hall he encounters a suit of armor which has all the appearances of being alive; and he is so badly frightened that he collapses in a chair, where he is discovered by his wife, and marched off to bed."
- Townspeople in strange attire are being attacked by Indians who appear from the woods.. Both sides start shooting. While some Indians dance, the town begins to burn. Cowboys appear and shoot most people involved in the conflict down.
- "Another exhibition by Prof. Leonidas' troop of cats and dogs. One of the dogs is shown stealing his dinner from the table in his master's absence. In order to cover his own crime, the dog places a cat on the table, where she is found when the master comes in. The master shoots the cat, and is promptly arrested by a large dog dressed in policeman's clothes."
- Pedestrian traffic on the square.
- "A pretty maid is busy putting a blank record into a graphophone on the parlor table. Mr. Gayboy comes in and kisses the maid several times against her will; all unaware of the fact that the graphophone is making a record of his folly. Mrs. Gayboy comes in suddenly with her mother, and proceeds to show her the graphophone. The fatal record is repeated, and Mr. Gayboy is punished."
- A vignette of a barroom/liquor-store in the West, no plot per se. However this short is usually regarded as the first "Western" in the sense that it depicts a western scene.
- "'Neidert,' of national fame, does stunts on his wheel that are simply wonderful. Makes his bicycle rear up, and rides around the stage on his back wheel; besides a lot of other easy things, such as riding on one pedal and riding backward, seated on the handlebars."
- "An interesting picture of the great inter-collegiate eight-oared boat race of 1899. The picture is taken from the judge's boat, and shows the start and first part of the race."
- Departure of two Japanese women for a rickshaw ride. The title is a misnomer, there is no dancing.
- This view was taken at Niagara Falls in the dead of winter from Goat Island, showing the American Falls tumbling their enormous volume of water through huge icebergs of frozen spray. The much-talked-of ice-bridge is shown at its best.
- Footage of tamed bears performing tricks.
- "This picture shows the Canadian troops departing from Quebec for the war in Transvaal. The scene opens with the soldiers clad in campaign uniform, marching under the triumphal arch, cheered by thousands of spectators who are waving English flags. The troops next appear marching upon the wharf and finally embarking upon the transport Sardinia[n], which is to carry them to far away South Africa."
- 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.
- "By Secretary Long at Washington, showing President McKinley, the Admiral and many other celebrities. Clear, sharp and lifelike."
- "While the dairy maid is churning at the cottage door, a young man tries to convince her that she does not know how to use the churn. He attempts to show her, and after considerable pounding, the cream explodes through the top of the churn and covers him."