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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two prehistoric suitors, one a mailman, compete for the affections of a prehistoric maiden and a dinosaur.
- A woman riding a train must contend with the unwelcome advances of a male passenger.
- A brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a "Dog Transformator," a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, sausages back into dogs.
- Men on the streetcar offer their seats to pretty women, but not to an ugly woman.
- Scene III of the Buster Brown Series. Shows a bargain counter in a department store and a large gathering of women examining goods. It is a special sale, and a great deal of interest is shown by the ladies, who jostle and crowd each other to secure the choicest bargains. Mrs. Brown enters, accompanied by Buster and Tige. Mrs. Brown is unable to get near the counter and is in despair. Buster sees his mamma's predicament, whispers in Tige's ear to "take a fit," which he does by throwing somersaults high in the air, and running wildly about as though mad. The dog's actions frighten the shoppers and they scatter in all directions. After the stampede Mrs. Brown proceeds to make her purchases, while Tige seats himself on a stool, and Buster looks on very innocently.
- Scene II of the Buster Brown Series. Shows a millinery store in the shopping district, and Mrs. Brown with a lady friend, admiring the hats displayed in the window. Buster and Tige are standing in the foreground. A howling swell, leading a small dog bedecked with ribbons, recognizes Mrs. Brown and stops to chat. Buster becomes impatient, tugs at his mamma's dress, and endeavors to hurry her; but the dude waves him aside. Buster gets angry at this and retaliates by setting Tige on the dude's dog. Tige secures a good hold on the dog's neck and hauls it all over the street. During the battle the dude makes frantic efforts to rescue his dog by kicking Tige. Mrs. Brown comes to the rescue by beating the dude over his head with her umbrella and knocking his hat off. Tige sees the hat, releases his hold, and the two dogs tear the hat into ribbons.
- 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 large figure of a man seated behind a table reading a paper is first seen. On the side of the paper toward the audience, one can plainly read the words, "How old is Ann?" Turning the paper over this meets his eyes; he lays the paper down with a sarcastic smile and begins to figure with pencil and pad. After several attempts, he becomes excited and tears his hair. Scene 2 shows him in a padded cell. A large blackboard is hanging on the wall at the top of which are the words, "How old is Ann?" The inmate of the cell looks up and observes the words, and springing to his feet, and seizing a piece of chalk, he attempts to do the problem again, but fails and he tries to dash his brains out against the wall.
- Scene, interior of a street-car. A stout man enters and sits down alongside of a friend and proceeds to read a comic paper. He shows a joke in the paper to his friend, and the both laugh heartily. The friend leaves the car, and his absence is not noted by the stout man. An elderly matron takes the seat. Without looking up the stout man shoves the paper in front of the face of the old lady, thinking his friend is still there. He goes into a fit of laughter over the joke, punching her in the ribs with his thumb, and slapping her on the knee. She becomes very much embarrassed and indignant. She shakes him by the shoulder, he looks around, discovers his mistake, and sinks through the floor.
- Cohen, a grotesquely made-up Jewish shop owner, tricks a passerby into wearing a coat that has a sign advertising his store attached to the back.
- 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.
- Daniel Boone is captured by Indians when he tries to rescue his abducted daughter.
- An old German is fast asleep in bed. He is suddenly awakened and immediately reaches for a large pistol under his pillow. After a few terrifying moments a cat jumps upon the bed. Seeing the cause of his fright, the old fellow embraces the cat and settles back to sleep.
- Percy is beaten up during a college hazing. He hires Professor Arm. Strong to hide in Percy's room one dark night and beat up the other students coming for another hazing. Suddenly Percy gains respect on campus.
- 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.
- 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 male singer who goes on as the extra act in a vaudeville show is greeted with disapproval, but he just won't leave the stage... voluntarily.
- The cook has trouble lighting the stove, so she adds kerosene, with explosive results.
- Shows Mr. R. T. Outcault, the artist, making a quick charcoal sketch of Buster Brown and his dog Tige.
- In a small town, O'Toole is the only police officer. After there's a burglary and O'Toole doesn't catch anyone, the town council threatens to fire him. O'Toole sets up a fake arrest, but it backfires, and the town council makes Mrs. O'Toole the new police chief.