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- This most interesting and instructive film illustrates as no words can do the degree of perfection to which ancient Moorish architecture attained during the time when Morocco held Spain in subjugation, that is to say, in the 13th century. First, we see a superb panorama of the ancient city of Granada and then the details of its masterpiece of architectural art the "Alhambra," the palace of the Moorish kings, with its "Lions Courtyard," paved with white marble the lions being carved out of solid blocks of black marble. Then we are shown the "Myrtle Courtyard" and at the back the "Mirador, or Look-Out" balcony whence a splendid panoramic view of Granada and surroundings is obtained. The film closes with familiar scenes of Spanish gypsy life, a wedding followed by rejoicings and dances.
- The picturesque borderland of Austria and Italy. This film will prove a great attraction to all admirers of exquisite scenery. It certainly would be impossible to find more superb mountain and lake effects than those depicted in this glorious motion picture The Lake of Garda reflects mountains, vineyards and sky in its placid depths. No mirror could do it more perfectly. The panoramic view of the densely wooded hills, interspersed with dazzling white buildings, lordly historic castles, ruins of ancient temples and picturesque residences cannot be rivaled anywhere. Everyone is sorry when this picture comes to an end. A thousand feet of such sublime views as are here depicted would not be too much.
- DirectorTheo FrenkelTwo brothers try to force an unwilling man to wed their sister.
- On a wild, romantic, rocky coast a young coast guard corporal is on duty, under orders to watch for smugglers. He is also in love with a young peasant girl and the match is favored by both the girl and her father. While watching the coast one day, the young officer is overcome by the heat, lies down and falls asleep. While he sleeps the smugglers creep up on him, take away his rifle and go about their business. The guard detail of coast guards come around to relieve the man on duty and find him asleep and his gun gone. They arrest him and take him to headquarters, where his corporal's stripes are torn from his sleeves and he is disgraced. His sweetheart and her father now dismiss him from their house and altogether things look very bad for him. Clearly the only way out of his troubles is for him to perform some act of conspicuous bravery or merit. He follows up the trail of the smuggler band and succeeds in locating them. Then he summons the other coast guards to his assistance, and the smugglers are arrested. This act results in the restoration of the corporal's stripes and the return of his sweetheart's love and favor. He is now and henceforward worthy of the name of "coast guard."
- StarsPauline GilmerOlive WalterMargaret MurrayA fairy helps selfish children find the bird of happiness.
- DirectorCharles RaymondStarsCharles RaymondA clerk steals for a girl's sake and is forgiven on saving the life of the boss's daughter.
- DirectorTheo FrenkelA man takes the blame for a maid who steals a necklace, but denounces her when she weds another.
- DirectorPercy StowAn office boy witness saves a clerk from being framed for robbing a safe.
- DirectorPercy StowA clumsy plumber finds a leak in a garret and floods the house.
- A rich British workman and clean butcher are contrasted with their French counterparts.
- DirectorA.E. ColebyStarsDavid AylottCharles BoltonSuffragettes pelt a candidate and he wins but six votes.
- DirectorA.E. ColebyStarsDavid AylottA squire saves a gypsy girl from a poacher and weds her.
- John Bull's home is invaded by an Italian, Russian and Frenchman.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonA starving flower girl steals a loaf.
- DirectorA.E. ColebyA rich man disowns his daughter but forgives her when her poor husband forges a cheque.
- DirectorDavid AylottA man is mistakenly packed in a box.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonA lawyer advertises for 'John Brown' and dozens apply.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonStarsJohnny ButtA colonel's home-made pickles make diners belch flames.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonA girl elopes while her maid takes her place at an enforced wedding.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonA framed clerk's fiancée trails a thief and locks him in.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonA gypsy girl jilts her lover for a squire but he loves another.
- A man's mania for the open air.
- A boy gets a saucepan stuck over his head.
- DirectorS. WormaldJewel thieves steal a Lady's car and are trailed by a detective.
- The daughter of a starving pedlar overhears bankrobbers' plans.
- DirectorS. WormaldA girl objects to her father's choice and falls in love with an automaton.
- A peddler steals chickens.
- DirectorDavid AylottStarsA.E. ColebyJohnny ButtDavid AylottA trapper surrenders to Indians to save friends from attack.
- DirectorAlf CollinsStarsBob PenderStiltwalking buskers save a child from a burning house.
- DirectorPercy StowLove helps a suitor heat a girl's father at billiards.
- DirectorA.E. ColebyA sultan gives a rescuer a drummer who follows him everywhere.
- DirectorCharles RaymondA framed fireman is cleared when he saves the life of a rival's accomplice.
- DirectorF. Percy SmithThe challenge of the very slow lens required by F. Percy Smith for macro-photography, coupled with the insensitive film stock of the day, meant that so much light was required for exposure that the poor flies quickly succumbed to the heat. As Smith had glued their wings so that they could not fly away, they used their legs to achieve the memorable results seen here.
- DirectorPercy StowStarsP.G. Norgate
- DirectorA.E. ColebyStarsFrank MillerA boy steals a savage dog and sets it on a PC, a sailor and a blind man.
- DirectorTheo FrenkelA nurse helps a captured officer escape from an old general.
- DirectorTheo FrenkelA henpeck hides his winnings inside a hat and his wife sells it.
- A miser forgives his disowned daughter when he meets her baby.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonStarsLewin FitzhamonA horse fetches help when its master is attacked by tramps.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonStarsAlma TaylorA burglar is reformed when he poses as a conjurer at a children's party.
- DirectorJoe RosenthalA girl in a toy car leads cycling policemen to jewel thieves.
- A grandfather tells his children how he saved a hospital and flag.
- DirectorFrank WilsonA bulldog dragging a policeman pursues an old man.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonA child hides money in a doll while her sister fetches her father to catch burglars.
- DirectorJoe RosenthalA miserly father is fooled by his disguised son and daughter.
- DirectorFrank WilsonA sacked postman's son trails a thief and locks him in.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonA pursued thief hides a necklace in a 'blind' beggar's hat.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonA doctor is chased when he takes the wrong hat containing money.
- A mischievous four-year-old girl tricks a tramp, policeman and doctor.
- A betrayed Fenian is sheltered by a priest, escapes jail, and poses as a corpse at a wake.
- A woman dons a diving suit to save her husband from a rival's minions.
- Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
- A doctor's daughter elopes with a clown whose rival takes his place and shoots her.
- Boys dress as firemen and set fire to a house.
- DirectorS. WormaldA girl's suitor uses a skeleton to scare away her father's patients.
- A Negro saves a planter's daughter from a sacked overseer.
- A poor artist saves an academician's daughter from drowning.
- DirectorPercy StowA family and maid learn to roller skate indoors.
- DirectorGeorge Albert Smith
- DirectorGeorge Albert Smith
- DirectorTheo FrenkelA rich woman has a lord certified for rejecting her daughter. He is freed after saving a doctor form a madman.
- DirectorTheo FrenkelA wife leaves home to live with her husband's best friend. She returns five years later and dies.
- DirectorCharles ArmstrongA clown and his donkey perform circus tricks and stage magic. A circus monkey serves as an assistant to the clown.
- DirectorA.E. ColebyA terrier steals a handbag to aid a starving clown, and they are chased.
- DirectorH.O. MartinekStarsDorothy FaneA boy puts a baby's clothes on a teddy bear and throws it into the river to fool a PC.
- DirectorPercy StowA couple eat noisy cockerel and start crowing.
- An old man has trouble sewing a button.
- A detective saves a clerk from a gang who tie him to a clock-operated gun.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonA coster couple save a rich man's grandson from kidnappers.
- Father grinds a knife, then chases his son.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonStarsBertie PotterGertie PotterFour children steal a car and eventually smash it.
- DirectorPercy StowA child in a toy engine is chased through a drainpipe and millstream.
- DirectorDavid AylottStarsA.E. Coleby
- DirectorA.E. ColebyA tramp poses as a mummy and his partner sells him to a professor.
- DirectorFrank WilsonA man uses a dead dog to extort money from motorists.
- DirectorJoe RosenthalTrouble ensues when a family man inherits a hungry goat.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonAn electrified workman shocks a spinster, a cyclist and a cook.
- A man's hired cycle is used by the maid, a passerby and a tramp.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonBoys save a small girl from gypsy kidnappers.
- An Earl is reconciled with his enforced wife over the deathbed of his sweetheart.
- A ploughman wins the farmer's daughter by proving his rival framed him for poaching.
- DirectorLewin FitzhamonA barber chases a thief who poses as a woman.
- StarsBuffalo Bill Cody
- DirectorF. Percy SmithThe series of pictures, which is entitled "The Fly Pest," shows flies (as big as Plymouth Rock hens, as they appear on the screen) laying eggs in putrid meat; the eggs in white masses: the maggots in writhing heaps as they emerge from the eggs, and in different stages of their growth as maggots, until they burrow in the dirt to enter the pupa state; the pupa; (or grubs) themselves, one day later; flies emerging from the filth, at first wingless; then the perfect adult fly. Then follow pictures, stretching across the screen, of a fly taking a sip of honey from the point of a needle, showing the action of the proboscis, very like an elephant's trunk in miniature; of the tongue, and of the foot, also enormously enlarged, and with every microscopic hair distinct. The second act of this little life-history is entitled: "How Flies Carry Contagion." In it these scenes follow one another in rapid succession, so that the most thoughtless spectator cannot fail to grasp their full significance: Flies swarming on putrid fish: crawling over lumps of sugar: in a cuspidor; on the nipple of a baby's feeding bottle; and, last of all, a pretty baby placidly sucking the mouthpiece from which the flies have just departed.
- DirectorTheo FrenkelA PC catches a robber brother who reforms and helps catch bank-robbers.