Lewin Fitzhamon

Tomboys play tricks on their uncle when he flirts with a maid.

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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.

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A captured detective is rescued by a dog.

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A banker's daughter rejects a rich client who then withdraws money to cause a run on the bank.

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A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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A short film in which every time a beggar sells his dog it returns to him.

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A countryman buys a stubborn donkey and has trouble.

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Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.

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A drunkard has a vision of everything turning into bottles.

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The story of a little girl and her pets, a horse and a dog, whose marvelous intelligence is most strikingly shown. The little girl, whose home is at the seaside, goes out on the rocks to play with her dog. There she romps with her pet and quite loses sight of the constantly rising tide. Suddenly she discovers that the rocks are surrounded, and her escape entirely cut off. Turning to her dog, she motions him to the land; instantly he is off, swimming to shore and dashing across the beach. He reaches the stable, where he unties the pet horse, then leading the way, he and the horse dash off to the surf, through which they plunge. The horse soon reaches the rock, which he has much difficulty in approaching, but finally the little girl succeeds in getting upon his back, and is then swiftly borne to shore.

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Three suitors try to impress a girl by chasing her all over the place. Finally she makes her choice.

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As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy retaliates by sneaking into the older man's room and putting pepper in his handkerchief, hairbrush, and clothing. But things quickly get out of hand when the sneezing that results begins to disrupt the whole town.

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A Woman sings and everything breaks.

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A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

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A horse fetches help when tramps attack its master.

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A father saves his kidnapped daughter from the indians.

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The pursuit of a highwayman taking a message to a knight (First British one-reel feature).

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Some gossiping women exaggerate the priest’s gift to a little girl.

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A scientist dreams of prehistoric monsters. He awakes in a cavern. A dinosaur chases him, even though he tries to shoot it with his revolver. The chase continues onto the surface. The professor meets a group of prehistoric women, who flee when other monsters appear. The professor's wife finds him sleeping in the laboratory, surrounded by fossils, and wakes him with water from a siphon. This short film is only viewable at the BFI, and its generally believed to be the first film depiction of dinosaurs, here accomplished through the use of simple pantomime costumes.

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A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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A framed bank clerk breaks jail and is sheltered by a vicar until the culprit is caught in Soho.

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A man wins a girl by pretending to take poison.

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A man plays a trick to gain a woman's affection.

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A young woman is abducted and forced to beg from passers-by.

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

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