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- Panoramic view taken from the Suspension Railway at Barmen and Elbefeld, Germany. A marvelous example of engineering work.
- A very excellent picture, showing the traffic in the most lively part of the Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, in front of the Central Hotel.
- The young entrepreneur Heinrich Vollmer travels overseas for urgent business. Vollmer's activities bring him great profit but when the hotel where he is staying collapses he is pulled out of the rubble but have lost his memory. .
- The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- This is a double-printing trick picture, made of Annabelle, the American skirt dancer, and a German aquarium scene. The combined effect is very amusing, inasmuch as the dance appears to take place beneath the water, the fair dancer being surrounded by swimming fishes.
- In the first scene, a gentleman invites a lady to a ball, in the second they are dancing after the ball in a restaurant - slightly drunk - with the resulting consequences for the restaurant.
- Three practical jokers paste a counterfeit banknote on a table and then wait to see poor unknowing ones try to get it. One after another they appear and try to pry the supposedly good money loose. At last a Jew peddler comes along and finding he cannot lift the bill he takes table and all and runs off, pursued by the restaurant waiters, for it is in an open café, he then smashes the table top and after getting the bill tries to buy some bread with it and is thrown out into the street. He is at last caught and thrashed by the enraged restaurant proprietor and his employees.
- In this three part recreation of the life of Queen Louise of Prussia specific historical moments ,such as her meeting her future spouse, are presented tableaux style with the exact dates noted and often in the authentic settings.
- A general captures a medieval city and receives a petition for clemency from the natives. He lodges in the house of the principal citizen and becomes enamored of his daughter. So does his adjutant who falls deeply in love, and she with him, and when the general tries to force a kiss from her lips the adjutant interferes and is straightway laid hold of, imprisoned, tried and condemned to death. The girl has a vision of his being hanged and to save him she gives her promise to wed the general and thus receives the pardon. She hastens to the dungeon with it and as her lover is released she takes poison and dies in his arms rather than give herself to the man in whose power both are.
- A remarkable practice manoeuvre of the German Army. It will be noted that the swimming horses are towing the barges on which the soldiers are crossing the stream.