The Magic Glass

'The intrepid Lt Lilly is called upon to quell a Chinese Boxer rebellion in a spoof adventure serial.' (British Film Institute)

Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.

A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film.

Girls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders.

A scatterbrained circus lady must cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.

Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.

An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.

Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in love with Vera, one of the factory workers, who is unaware of his position. So when she jokes one day that she would love a Rolls-Royce, Robert makes sure that she gets one. Then he decides to raise her salary out of all proportion to hint at who he is...

A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.

Two young men help two girls escape.

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.

A professor takes daughter's suitor's camera by mistake.