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Whaling Afloat and Ashore 1908 star_border 6
A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

The Fatal Hand 1907 star_border 4
There's a killer on the loose in Muswell Hill. Escaped from an asylum, he can be identified by the missing forefinger on his left hand.

Laplander Feeding His Reindeer 1907
Short documentary released in 1907.

The '?' Motorist 1906 star_border 6.5
A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

Is Spiritualism a Fraud?: The Medium Exposed 1906 star_border 4.7
Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.

The Curate's Dilemma 1906
A curate sits on an anthill at a picnic.

The Fakir and the Footpads 1906
A tramp steals food from a picnicking professor and is blown up.

A Lively Quarter-Day 1906 star_border 5.2
A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

The Freak Barber 1905
A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.

When the Wife's Away 1905
A husband tries to boss his servants and ends up in the dough.

A Victim of Misfortune 1905 star_border 4.8
Painter pursued by policeman, laundress, milkman, etc.

Mr. Pecksniff Fetches the Doctor 1904 star_border 4.5
A husband rushes for a doctor and his wife has triplets.

Buy Your Own Cherries 1904 star_border 4.7
A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman who runs a tab at the bar, he pays off his debt in a huff, using all his week's pay. He then storms penniless and without provisions into his ill-furnished house where his wife and two children, ill-clad and ill-fed, cower. Is there any hope for him and for his family? If he does realize how low he's sunk, what help is there to lift him up? Will the family ever know the taste of cherries?

Drat That Boy! 1904 star_border 4.5
A boy pulls a prank on his poor old mother.

The Capture and Execution as Spies of Two Japanese Officers 1904
Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot.

A Collier's Life 1904
Documentary snippets from the lives of miners.

An Extraordinary Cab Accident 1903 star_border 5.9
A man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the sidewalk saying good-by to his companion. The horse and cart flatten him and continue on, out of the camera's stationary range. The cop runs after the cab, the woman dashes to the body. The cop brings back the driver; is the victim dead?

A Chess Dispute 1903 star_border 5.9
A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wrestle each other to the floor and continue the fight out of the camera's view, hidden by the table. The waiter arrives to haul both of them out.

The Extraordinary Waiter 1902 star_border 3.5
A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter. (IMDb)

The Magic Sword 1901 star_border 7.1
On the roof of an ancient palace appear a young Knight and his lady. While they are making love an ugly old witch appears and is rather troublesome. The Knight commands her to leave, and when he is about to force her away she sits on her broom and rises to the moon. After disappearing she causes various hob-goblins to haunt the pair, the last of them stealing away the lady while the Knight's back is turned. The Knight, frantic with grief, is suddenly confronted by a Fairy, who presents him with a magical sword, and tells him that he can use it to regain the young woman.

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