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- In a rare filmed record, the famed songwriters and vaudevillians perform. One of De Forest's earliest experimental sound films.
- This experimental talking short shows Cantor in his vaudeville act.
- Blake plays the neoclassical piece on the piano. The highest notes failed to record in this seminal experiment with synchronized sound.
- The subject of this short film is taxation and tax reform
- The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- British music hall star George Jackley sings "Everyone's Going to the Dogs (Bow-Wow)" by James Walsh and Val Watson.
- British music hall stars, brothers Harry and Max Nesbitt, perform in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process in which Capt. W. G. R. Hinchliffe (1894-1928) and Charles A. Levine (1897-1991) are interviewed at the Clapham Studios in London just before their return flight to the U.S.
- The Victoria Girls, appearing "in their famous dancing medley" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, sing and dance to popular songs "Diane" by Erno Rapee, "Rain" by Eugene Ford, and "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Francis Wheeler.
- Actor Bransby Williams appears as the miser in an excerpt of Dickens' novel Bleak House.
- Alma Barnes, British comic billed as "the internationally famous mimic", performs excerpts of her music hall act in this short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- A short film showing a Curtiss JN-4 ("Jenny") biplane in flight.
- The Westminster Glee Singers, under the direction of Edward Branscombe, appear in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- British music hall star Albert George Spink (1869-1947) appears with his dog Rosie as "Dandy George and Rosie" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound- on-film process.
- Short excerpt of the stage musical Sensations of 1927, written by composer Lawrence Wright, and filmed in the DeForest Phonofilm process.
- A dog barks in front of an ivy-covered wall. One the earliest of the De Forest Phonofilm productions.