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- An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
- In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
- A fireman rushes into a carriage to rescue a woman from a house fire. He breaks the windowpanes and carries the woman to safety; after dangerous and uncertain moments he also saves the woman's son.
- Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowing on cinematographic methods reminiscent of 'Georges Melies', Porter uses animation, double exposure, and trick photography to illustrate the fairy's apparitions, Jack's dream, and the fast growing beanstalk.
- Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not leave, but Eliza flees with her child. After getting some help to escape the slave traders who are looking for her, she then must try to cross the icy Ohio River if she wants to be free. Meanwhile, Tom is sold from one master to another, and his fortunes vary widely.
- Two prehistoric suitors, one a mailman, compete for the affections of a prehistoric maiden and a dinosaur.
- Daniel Boone is captured by Indians when he tries to rescue his abducted daughter.
- A brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a "Dog Transformator," a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, sausages back into dogs.
- The cook has trouble lighting the stove, so she adds kerosene, with explosive results.
- Shows a bedroom and a man asleep in bed. A burglar cautiously raises the window, climbs in, and proceeds to go through the man's clothes. The man awakes, pulls a lever, which closes him up in a folding bed, the bottom of which is iron-clad and fitted with guns and portholes. The burglar is dumbfounded and cannot move. Subbubs turns his battery loose, blowing the burglar to pieces. He then raises an American flag on a staff on top of the bed as a signal of victory. The bed opens up again and Subbubs goes to sleep.
- A woman riding a train must contend with the unwelcome advances of a male passenger.
- A businessman makes a luncheon appointment with a young lady, but finds that his wife disapproves of the arrangement.
- Jack goes from business to business, trying to sell ad space in his newspaper. At each stop he catches the boss in a compromising position with a secretary. He writes an editorial about the practice, hinting that he could expose prominent businessmen. Suddenly everyone wants to buy ads in his paper.
- A Japanese juggler performs some marvelous juggling feats with a boy. Lying on his back on the floor, he spins the boy with his feet and makes him turn numerous somersaults.
- Two cavemen invent the wheel, but when they are frustrated in their attempts to have a dinosaur pull a cart, conclude that the device is useless.
- A little girl and her baby sister are playing in the garden. The older of the two, wishing to amuse herself in some other way, gives the baby some bread and runs off. Pretty soon a number of hungry puppies see the baby eating and make a rush for her. When they jump for the bread the child becomes frightened, gets up and attempts to run away, but there are too many hungry pups around, and before she can get away, they snatch the bread from her. It is very humorous to watch the baby's facial expressions from the time the little puppies first appear, until she runs away.
- A historical re-enactment of a naval battle in Chemulpo Bay off the coast of Korea during the Russo-Japanese war. Shows a Japanese ship damaging one Russian vessel and sinking another.
- A tramp enters a large reception room just as a party of girls are descending a staircase backwards with mirrors in their hands to see their future husbands. One of the girl's mirrors brings the tramp into view and she immediately seizes and embraces him. Discovering her mistake she ejects the tramp from the room. The girls then commence their Hallowe'en games, such as biting the swinging apple, ducking for the ring in a pan of flour and ducking for apples in a tub of water. The climax of this picture is reached when a fresh young man, who has been watching their stunts, is discovered by the girls. They throw him bodily into the tub of water and empty pans of flour over him.
- Shows Miss Jessie Cameron, dancing the sword dance. Although only ten years of age, she is considered the champion sword dancer of the world.
- This young lady is shown dancing the Highland Fling, in competition for the championship of the world before some of the greatest judges of the day. The dance itself is remarkable, and it is easily seen how Miss Dogherty has earned her reputation.
- Buster hides live crabs in Papa's bed so Papa gets a surprise when he tries to take a nap.
- On a white pedestal on a dark stage stands Beatrice Marshall, dressed in a leotard, with a thin sash slung low around her hips. She holds various poses of balance and grace, based on classical statuary. After about ten such poses held for a few seconds each, we see Albert Treloar, dressed in no more than jungle trunks, socks, and wristbands. He strikes various poses emphasizing his muscles. He flexes his arms and abdomen. He holds poses facing us and with his back to the camera. He wiggles his triceps and makes a slight bow.
- A butler is assisting his master to remove his coat, etc. After donning his smoking jacket his master leaves the room. The butler immediately proceeds to attire himself in his master's clothes. While adoring himself in the glass his master's wife slips up behind him, and thinking he is her husband, kisses and embraces him in a most affectionate manner. The husband re-enters the room, discovers his wife and upbraids her. The wife tries to explain but only makes matters worse. The butler is finally kicked out of the room by the furious husband.
- Harold sends his only pants to be pressed. Meanwhile a fire breaks out in his apartment building. Harold's rival arrives in time to climb into his window for a rescue, but Harold knocks him out and steals his pants.