We put the world before you by means of the Bioscope and Urban films (Nov 1903)

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loe MISCELLANEOUS. 3516 3517 ... A PHOTOGRAPH WINDOW What do we see? what a variety. TAKEN FROM OUR AREA Nothing but feet and legs, but oh ! Length 100 feet. ... GRANDMA'S READING GLASS A most successful film. Grandma is sewing, and her little grandson amuses himself by viewing the surrounding objects through her large reading glass. Circular and magnified views are shown of the objects he beholds, viz. : the works of his watch, the canary in its cage, his grandma's eye, the cat's head, etc. Length 100 feet. 3518 3519 ... AS SEEN THROUGH A TELESCOPE An inquisitive old man by the roadside sees a young couple leading a bicycle in the distance. As the couple pause to tie a refractory shoe lace the old man raises his telescope to participate in the ceremony. A circular and enlarged view of the shoe tying appears on the screen ; but the old gentleman's pleasure is sadly marred, for the young man has observed the operation with the telescope and on arriving at his side bonnets him so severely that his camp stool collapses and dep >sits him in the dust. Length 75 feet ... THE VALENTINE The mingled emotions of the old maid as she receives a valentine are graphically expressed, and her final horror on discovering that she is the victim of a saucy joke is very laughable/ Length 50 feet. 3520 A BAD CIGAR Another version of the smoker's attempt to grapple with a cigar unworthy of the name. Length 50 feet. 3521 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT A reversing film. Very interesting. A tiresome boy shakes down the house laboriously built by his sister, then gleefully pokes and shakes the pile of bricks which mysteriously rebuild themselves as he proceeds. Length 50 feet, 3523 ... MARY JANE'S MISHAP This film shows the kitchen operations of Mary Jane the servant in early morning. Her laughable efforts to clean boots, light the fire, &c, are exhibited, and magnified views of her No. 3523. The Explosion — Blown over the House-tops.