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- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- A young novice leaves the convent for a knight. Unlike the better-known 1959 film "The Miracle", this version is set in medieval times.
- Lydia Vengar goes to bed much depressed by her father's refusal to countenance the suit of Raoul Bardy for her hand. Silently three masked men enter through a window. They carry out Lydia, knocking over her new camera in their flight. Webb, a celebrated detective is engaged and, in answer to a letter demanding a ransom for Lydia's return, instructs her father to put a bundle of counterfeit money in a box at the place designated. A dog comes sniffing about, takes the box in his mouth, scampers away and is lost to the pursuers. It is learned that three men took part in the abduction as the camera in falling to the ground took an accidental snapshot. Webb advertises for a butler, feeling sure that one of the three will be sent to keep watch on him and to do worse. In a series of moves Webb learns that the supposed servant actually is a member of the band. The detective foils efforts to poison him and later to asphyxiate him. Supposing Webb to be dead, the crook servant goes to the rendezvous of the gang closely trailed by Webb. Webb enters by means of a rope and going down the chimney is attracted by the sound of voices. Three men are in conference. The late servant is telling his confederates that he has killed off their dangerous foe. Webb emerges the chimney cautiously after two of the men have left the room and creeps up behind the remaining conspirator. In a champagne cooler, the conspirator sees Webb's reflection and turning quickly gets the "drop" on the detective, with the revolver at his hip pointing upward. There is no sound but the conspirator topples over. It was an either revolver which projected from pressure of the trigger. Webb hides the insensible man in the fireplace and searches for the imprisoned girl. Meanwhile the other two conspirators have gone back into the room where their confederate is lying insensible in the fireplace. One throws his cigar into the fireplace. It flames up and the smoke restores the stupefied man to consciousness. The three, thoroughly alarmed, go after Webb, and trap him in the room with the girl. When he pursues an apparent means of escape, they release a trap door and he falls into a well. The water rises higher and higher and it is only by cleverness consummate that he extricated himself. Hiding under the sofa, Webb overhears the conspirators' plans to take the captive to another hiding place. Webb slips out to intercept the chauffeur of the automobile which is to convey them. He overpowers him and after a quick change of make-up, stations himself at the wheel. Feigning accident to the car by a trick, he drives off with the girl, who he restores to her parents. Here he also kills two birds with one stone by unmasking Vengar's supposed servant, who is in reality one of the three kidnappers. With policemen he then rounds up the remaining two.
- A famous surgeon who places the claims of suffering humanity above considerations of self, and goes blind.
- A mother is so shocked by her daughter's almost being overrun by a car that she needs internment in a sanatorium. The doctor, in love with her, takes advantage of her amnesic cataleptic state to make believe she has died and take her away from her family. Destiny, though, will make them meet again.
- A scheming relative is about to close his clutches on his prey when the working of a mysterious panel exposes all his well-laid plans.
- A tragedy about the invention of the videophone.
- Florian, a traveling minstrel, is journeying along the highway with his gypsy-like troupe of men and women, when they see moving toward them a strange and terrified procession. They are leading a witch to the stake to be burned. Everything is made ready for the execution, the fagots await the touch of the match and the strong armed executioner seizes the girl and makes her fast to the stake. An old law is proclaimed before the execution is begun. According to this law, if any freeman comes forward from among the spectators and marries the "witch" she will be purged from her sin, but the law goes on to say that if she repays her benefactor husband with ingratitude, then the old judgment of death shall be revived and she shall forthwith be led to her death. Florian is touched with love and pity and marries the "witch." Her husband instructs her in the art of playing the lute, and one day as they play before the castle of one of the Dukes of the realm, the Duke falls in love with her. The "witch" resists the advances of the Duke. In the meantime the jealousy and rage of Fascha, who regarded Florian as her sweetheart, causes the arrest of Florian on the false charge of arson. Florian is brought before the court and condemned to life imprisonment, a punishment which the Duke alone has the power to remit. The Duke, who has been a party to this false accusation in order to gain possession of the "witch," promises to pardon Florian if his wife will kiss him. Florian, who sees his wife kissing the Duke, believes that she has been faithless to him. Florian appeals to the law and demands that sentence of death be carried out against his supposedly unfaithful wife. At this moment, the Duke hears the voice of Conscience and touched by the fidelity of the "witch," he proves her innocence and then pardons Florian, who is happily restored to his wife.
- An elderly gentleman, a professor and savant, living in quiet retirement, is greatly mystified and annoyed by a nightly visitor, who flits through his study and rummages around his desk. In his growing embarrassment the professor appeals to the police, who make a thorough search of the professor's apartments, but fail to discover even the faintest clue to the solution of the mystery. Thereupon the professor appeals to the master detective, to the brilliant and profound Stuart Webb, who can fathom the motives of men and follow the devious paths of the criminal. At first, however, Webb is puzzled as much as the police were. After much thinking he hits upon a novel plan which he hopes will bring good results. He installs a motion picture camera in the professor's haunted chamber and by a most ingenious device arranges the machinery such a way that the slightest touch of the desk sets off a flashlight and puts the camera into action at the same time. The plan succeeds to this extent. The detective now has a picture of the strange intruder. The latter is revealed by the film as a man with a big beard. Rightly concluding that the man of mystery would want to change his appearance as quickly as possible after being caught by the camera and would therefore go to the first barber shop to effect the change, Webb and his assistant are ready. The mysterious intruder sits down in a chair and when he is lathered and Webb holds the razor poised above his head, Webb's assistant slips the handcuffs on him. Now, the veil of the mystery lifts rapidly. The midnight visitor, it turns out, was not after the professor's desk at all; he was the agent of a foreign government in search of important plans. These plans were in the possession of a famous military engineer, who lived on the floor above the professor. There were secret passages in the old house and in the confusion of the winding steps the thief had mistaken the professor's study for the room of the engineer. The discovery that the whole house was mined, so to speak, with parallel stairs and shafts is brought home to the spectator with unique and startling effect.