The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.
A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.
Vista de una plaza de Milán. Un falso lisiado (il finto storpio), fuera de cuadro, pide limosna a los transeúntes. Cuando es descubierto por un guardia, la breve persecución que ello desata queda registrada por la cámara.
A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.
Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.
Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.
This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary writer, Jean-Paul Marat--who has the notorious distinction of having influenced the Reign of Terror.
The title tells us where we are; the vignette is in two parts, spliced together. On a busy sidewalk, a police officer holds the left arm and a suited man holds the other of a Chinese wearing a loose white shirt and hat - marching the man up the slight incline past the camera.
Un canalla, fingiendo ser ciego, engaña a la policía poniendo en su lugar a un desprevenido sujeto.
There is a burglar on the rooftop of a Manhattan office building, and he is trying to break in. Two women spot him, and one of them begins beating him with a broom as they wait for help to arrive. Soon others do appear on the scene to help, but by now the burglar has decided that he is going to put up a fight in an attempt to escape.
As Camilla sleeps in the garden of Tollhouse Inn, Roland steals a vial of elixir from under her skirt.
Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.
A burlesque on the work of highwaymen in Chicago. An elderly gentleman is sandbagged and robbed by a thug, who inadvertently leaves some money on the victim's prostrate body. A policeman shows up.
A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, joined by dogs, as neighbors watch the spectacle. The hobo jumps into a large rain barrel, followed by the dogs.
A burglar commits a homicide during a robbery. He is arrested and forced to cope with serious consequences.
A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution.
Two Boers shoot and rob a sentry.
This film recreates the arrest of Thomas Goudie, a bank employee who embezzled £170,000 to pay gambling debts, using the real locations. It shows the exterior of the house where he was hiding during a nationwide manhunt and re-enacts scenes of the landlady informing on him and his arrest. The film has no explanatory titles, so presumably audiences would have known, or were told, the story.
The public throughout the world is acquainted with the sensational capture of the Biddle Brothers and Mrs. Soffel, who, through the aid of Mrs. Soffel, escaped from the Pittsburg jail on January 30th, 1902.
A bracing fight scene