On board a ship, lines of laundry are taken down.

A man plays the trombone, to which is attached a saw.

A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of soldiers, or possibly more performers, march past. W K L Dickson who is directing the action can apparently be seen on far right of picture.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

An oil fountain at a factory near the village of Balakhani, Russian Empire, Baku governorate.

The battleship Maine is blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War.

An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.

The pious St. Anthony is tormented by visions of seductive women.

Scene of pilgrimage fair in a Czechoslavic village.

The film shows visitors to the Žofín lido in Prague as they comically mill about.

Josef Sváb-Malostranský unrolls a poster in front of a mill with the words Czech Cinematograph. All the actors in the film gather around him. An old philanderer meets up with the miller's wife in front of the mill. He is about to embrace her when her husband appears. The philanderer gets a good hiding.

A fight breaks out over a poster.

Close-up on a face laughing & laughing, then not crying & crying.