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- 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.
- Musical group The Coney Island Six perform in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Prof. Gilbert Olives and his wife Marion are in Malaya to develop an antidote for snakebite. When Prof. Olives discovers that his wife is having an affair, he plans revenge against his wife and her lover.
- 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.
- Actor Bransby Williams appears as the miser in an excerpt of Dickens' novel Bleak House.
- 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.
- If it is what I think it is then it is a very funny sketch with Rob Wilton playing a fire service officer. Available on YouTube and well worth a look. Only lasts a few minutes
- In a rare filmed record, the famed songwriters and vaudevillians perform. One of De Forest's earliest experimental sound films.
- A husband decides to teach his wife a lesson by feigning an affair with another woman over the phone.
- British entertainer Paul England sings popular tune "The Sheik of Araby" 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.
- 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.
- A dog barks in front of an ivy-covered wall. One the earliest of the De Forest Phonofilm productions.
- British music hall stars, brothers Harry and Max Nesbitt, perform in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- A short film showing a Curtiss JN-4 ("Jenny") biplane in flight.
- Charles Paton performs song "If Your Face Wants to Smile, We'll Let It In" as performed in the Lyceum Theater review "John Citizen's Lament".