A short 1897 actuality depicting a Southern Pacific Railroad train with a mail car exiting a tunnel.

A short 1896 actuality depicting the Black Diamond Express as it approaches and speeds passed the camera.

When the trestle her son’s train is about to cross is struck by lightning, a mother must find some way to warn him of the danger ahead.

A pickpocket’s simple robbery escalates into a crime far more serious aboard a train.

A man and a woman are captured by a mad scientist and kept like caged animals in his personal zoo in the jungle.

An honest one-armed beggar gets a less than honest artificial limb — one with kleptomaniacal tendencies that land him in jail.

A rich man is robbed of his clothes by an escaped convict and is mistaken for a fisherman by the convict’s sister.

Friends Percy and Bobby become the butt of each other’s practical jokes on April Fools’ Day.

A woman fakes suicide to test her husband’s love, but he knows her game and decides to play along.

Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter lest she be taken.