A man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A phantom ride.

HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly highly successful when it first opened, the film would later fall into obscurity, with all copies believed to be destroyed. In 2007, a print was discovered in a vault in Canada.

A woman agrees to kiss the winner of a race between a horse and a motorcar.

'Brighton. Dude searches for girl's lost shoes and stockings.' (British Film Catalogue)

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

A professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But the crawling creatures thus revealed aren't quite what one might expect.

A housekeeper's daughter loves a toper's affianced friend.

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as they go about their daily work, vandalising a bakery and taking a vehicle without consent - all in the space of six frenetic minutes.

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away from her family, but is reluctant to reveal the full story. Intent on concealing her identity from her pursuers, Denis coerces her into marrying him. But when the body of Margaret's missing father is discovered, it leads Denis to suspect his wife of murder.

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an automobile comes up the road, straight towards the camera. As it gets nearer, the occupants start to wave frantically, but can a collision be avoided?

A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.

Two romantic suitors avoid their wet-blanket chaperone by way of the titular hedge.

Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.