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- Billings and Meeker are two brow-beaten husbands who are dominated by their wives. The women are leaders in a "Rights for Women" club, and they neglect their household duties to show the way to their sisters in the cause. On the day of an important meeting of the club, Billings and Meeker are forced to listen to harsh words from their wives and are in rebellious spirits and ripe for mutiny. The occasion presents itself for an attractive looking young woman calls on Billings soliciting funds for a charitable institution. Billings is favorably impressed and besides his wife has just given him a curtain lecture. The girl is susceptible to flattery, and before she leaves, the henpecked husband has arranged a little supper, at which Meeker and her chum are to be guests. Telephones are brought into requisition and the affair is arranged to the joy of the two husbands. They repair to the restaurant appointed and have an uneasy half hour waiting for their fair guests. In the meantime their wives are spellbinding the members of the club at a stormy session. The young women arrive at the café and the dinner proceeds. Meeker succumbs to the influence of the wine and becomes tipsy. Just about this time a young man calls and takes the solicitor and her chum away. Billings pays the check out of Meeker's wallet and lugs him to his home, lying him on a couch. Mrs. Billings returns and Billings eludes her. She sees Meeker just as his wife calls. Billings bursts in and accuses his wife of an affair with his friend. The women indulge in a hair-pulling match whereat the men wax jubilant, and the scene closes with the husbands getting good and even with their wives.
- The story of the Titanic disaster based on the account of a survivor.
- A brother and his two younger sisters inherit a modest amount from their father. When the brother is away, their shady housekeeper decides to take it for herself.
- Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.
- Aboard the futuristic flying machine of his own invention, Professor Mabouloff and his team of intercultural explorers set off on yet another impossible expedition to North Pole's vast landscapes. What wonders await the bold adventurers?
- Mr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?
- A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.
- Episodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.
- An orphan in early 19th century England escapes the poorhouse only to fall among a gang of pickpockets in London.
- The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both of them.
- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- A chance find of money makes the penniless Sam a good match for the nouveau riche Lindy. But Sam soon loses the money at cards - and with it the favor of the unfaithful Lindy.
- A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.
- When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to leave her father, but soon she too is departing for a new home. Then comes a cold hard fact of life. The son-in-law claims his right to make a home alone for his wife. In his bitterness and anger, the father denies them both the house. Several years later the lonely old man meets at the gate a babe in arms. When he learns whose baby it is, heart hunger craves another sight, and sought, brings with it the only natural result.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- A gardener runs a nursery. His son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery. The gardener, who has a good eye for daughter, runs furiously his son out of the house.
- Consists of two parts: Part One: The Life of John Bunyon (2 reels); Part Two: The Pilgrim's Progress (3 reels).
- The movie depicts the Romanian War of Independence (1877-1878).
- An account of the life of Jesus Christ according to the New Testament, told as a series of tableaus interspersed with Bible verses.
- Lost film about the Gettysburg Address. Nothing is known about the survival status of this short film. It features the fourth live-action depiction of Abraham Lincoln on film.
- A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.
- The orphan Dora is courted by two different gold miners.
- Algie Allmore has one year to prove he's a man in order to wed Harry Lyons' daughter.
- Frank Watson was spending a month in New York when one day he receives a letter from his father requesting him to come home and also that a surprise awaits him on his return. This aroused Frank's curiosity, so immediately he made preparations to leave at once. One arriving home he went at once to the drawing room and there to his surprise he saw a very attractive girl sitting by the fire-place seeming to be perfectly at home with her surroundings. Frank coughs. The girl turns around and then nods to him but leaves the room at once. Just then his mother and father come in and greet him. At once Frank begins to question them about the girl. For an answer Frank's father walks to the desk and brings Frank a letter. There he learns that this girl is the daughter of his father's best friend who has just died and has made his father guardian. The girl's name is Peggy and she has been left a large fortune. Frank does not approve of this and begins to offer his objections. At the same time Peggy is seen coming down the stairs at the back of the room and accidentally overhears what Frank is saying. She then comes into the room and they are introduced. Six months later we find Frank in bad company. He has started gambling and has hard times settling all his debts. At present he owes $500 to a very miserly Jew who has Frank's promissory note to pay in a week's time. Poor Frank is almost a nervous wreck, for he has no means by which he can lift this debt. The day has come and we now see Frank nervously awaiting the Jew's arrival. The Jew is ushered in and at once starts business. He then learns that Frank is unable to pay and then swears that he will go to Frank's father for payment. Frank pleads not to tell his father. The Jew looks around the room in order to find some plan with which to force Frank to pay. Suddenly he notices a small safe in the desk marked EMERGENCY SAFE. He calls Frank's attention to it. After much arguing the Jew has persuaded Frank to get his payment from this safe with the hope of winning it back and then replace the money before the father finds it out. Frank takes the money, gets a receipt from the Jew and orders him out. Frank leaves the room at once. Suddenly we see Peggy getting up out of the large chair by the fireplace. She has accidentally overheard all that has passed between them without their knowledge and she realizes Frank's position at once. She decides to help Frank out of his trouble and starts to think of a plan. Later we see her coming into the drawing room all ready for a journey, carrying a suitcase in her hand. She puts a letter on the table for Frank's father and then leaves the house. The girl makes a splendid sacrifice to save Frank and later, in an impressive scene Frank admits his guilt and asks for forgiveness of the girl he has grown to love.
- Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story acted conventionally, she nevertheless maligned the other woman simply because she was an actress. While out on a shopping tour, the wife and her husband enter a store, leaving their child in the auto in the chauffeur's care. This gentleman pays but scant attention to the little one, so he wanders off and strolls into the stage door of a theater during the matinee. Upon their return to the auto the parents discover the child's absence and trace him to the theater stage, where they find him in the arms of one of the showgirls. The mother snatches the child from the girl's arms, scornfully exclaiming, "How dare you contaminate my child with your touch?" For this remark, together with the derisive laughter it occasions, the girl vows revenge.
- A society girl, admired and courted by many men is still indifferent to one and all. At a dance one evening there is introduced to her a man who shows that he is attracted by the girl, but unlike the other suitors, he does not flatter her. With her thoughts all of the stranger, she sits alone, musing. It seems to her that she is carried backward many centuries to a time when by her supposed magic arts, she reigned over a tribe of cave men. But in her rude court one day there appears a stranger who derided her powers. The others would have attacked him, but she stayed the hands the stranger walked off. The stranger stirred up her heretofore loyal subjects to rebellion. They stormed her cave, but her magic was still potent and she drove them off. But the stranger remained and finally took him prisoner, dragging her back to the village of the men who had once held her as a queen, where they decided to put her to death. The stranger however, balked their plans and told them that she belonged to him, and ordered them out of his way. When they tried to bar his progress, he fought his way through them and to safety in the wilderness outside, with her in his arms. She comes back to a realization of the present with a start. The stranger stands before her, asks for the next dance. In a daze she rises and takes his arm, and walks with him toward the ballroom. And all the way the one thought running through her head: "I wonder if he is the man?" For the stranger at the dance looked exactly like the man who in the prehistoric past subjugated the goddess and fought the timid cave men, who first worshiped her and then wanted to put her to death.
- A wife obsesses over the fact that a fortune teller revealed husband's voyage to America is doomed, he is booked to sail on the Titanic.
- A hungry mosquito spots and follows a man on his way home. The mosquito slips into the room where the man is sleeping, and gets ready for a meal. His first attempts startle the man and wake him up, but the mosquito is very persistent.
- Richard of Gloucester uses manipulation and murder to gain the English throne.
- Some tramps assault the telegraph office trying to rob $2000 delivered by train. The telegraphist girl, trying to help, telegraphs the next station and then the men are captured.
- Napoleon invades Russia in 1812.
- Although some scenes were re-enacted after the fact, this is a real documentary on the struggle of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to overthrow dictator Porfirio Díaz . Directors Christy Cabanne and Raoul Walsh took a camera crew to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution of 1912 and traveled with Villa, filming footage of his army on the march and engaged in battle with federal troops (director Walsh confirmed in an interview the long-rumored story that Villa insisted on the filming of execution by firing squad of several dozen federal prisoners, but that when he returned to Hollywood the studio thought the footage too grisly and cut it out).
- The U.S. Army and the Indians sign a peace treaty. However, a group of surveyors trespass on the Indians' land and violate the treaty. The Army refuses to listen to the Indians' complaints, and the surveyors are killed by the Indians. A vicious Indian war ensues, culminating in an Indian attack on an army fort.
- Mrs. Bunce grows suspicious of her husband's good-looking stenographer and Mrs. Brown sees visions in her mind of her husband entertaining chorus girls at wine suppers, a regular cut-up. She doesn't believe his stories of being detained at the office with his two faithful clerks. She makes up her mind to find out, and one night, when he is kept at work later than usual, she calls up his office, but it so happens that Bunce and his clerks had finished their work and had gone to dinner. She receives no answer to her phone call and is assured that her suspicions are correct. When he returns home he receives the icy stare and the stony heart from her. She determines to catch him at his deception. She writes a letter to her husband as if sent by a mutual friend, saying that a Westerner who is visiting the city would like to be shown the town. Mrs. Bunce disguises herself as the Westerner and calls on her husband with the aforesaid letter. Her husband recognizes his wife, but to get one on her he makes an appointment to meet her at a swell hotel, saying he would like to introduce her to a couple of attractive young ladies, with whom they can have a red-hot time. He arranges with his two clerks to impersonate the two young women, and they do it to perfection. Mrs. Bunce, disguised as the Westerner, meets her husband and together they meet the two girls. She can stand it no longer. She confesses her identity in tears and humiliation. In the midst of her denunciations of her husband's rascality, the two clerks take off their wigs and give Mrs. Bunce the merry ha-ha.
- Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Marguerite discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
- Old Tom Wells, a victim of drink, is unable to pay the rent when young landlord Steve arrives; his stormy interview is broken by the appearance of Tom's daughter Alice, whom the landlord has made many unsuccessful efforts to court. Alice, who has given her promise to Martin, an industrious young farmer, entreats with her father to overcome his weakness. Wells, knowing he will he dispossessed, becomes desperate and starts for the village to secure money. He is tempted to steal Steve's horse, but is discovered by the landlord, who declares that he will have the old man imprisoned if he does not force Alice to consent to the marriage. The unhappy father therefore refuses to permit Martin to visit Alice, to whom he explains that he is in the landlord's power. Alice sacrifices her happiness and marries Steve. Wells makes his home with the young couple but finds that he is in the way. Steve is harsh, often cruel, and the old man is finally obliged to leave the farm. Meanwhile, heartbroken Martin leaves for the village, unable to bear the sight of the old places where he has known so much happiness. Wells, in his journey, falls by the wayside and dispatches a note to Martin, beseeching him to look after the unhappy daughter. Steve meets a young woman with whom he determines to elope and he returns home to secure his money. He discovers Alice weeping over an old photograph of Martin and attacks her. Martin, fulfilling his trust, arrives on the scene and is confronted with Steve's revolver. In the struggle the pistol is accidentally discharged and the unfaithful husband is killed. As the days pass. Martin;s true love makes Alice forget her past unhappiness.
- John Morton, who loses his eyesight, discovers that his wife loves another man, who returns her affection. Rather than spoil her happiness and realizing that she no longer cares for him, he goes away, that she may get a divorce and he free. Alone, he wanders into the mountains, where he is found by a girl named Jess, who, seeing that he is blind, takes him to her father's cabin. Morton develops an ability to cure the poor simple mountain folk by praying over them. They have faith in him and his prayers and he never falls them. He becomes famous all through the mountains as the Faith Healer. Richard Mason, the man Morton's former wife is now married to, is stricken with paralysis. His wife takes him to a sanitarium in the mountains in the hope of having him cured. It so happened that this place is located very near where Morton is performing his wonderful miracle. Jess, seeing the sick man, suggests to his wife that she send for Morton. Without knowing whom it is, he is called upon to heal. Morton starts for the sanitarium. His former wife recognizes him, but fearing that he will recognize her voice, she keeps quiet. But the Faith Healer soon finds out his patient's identity. He opens his Bible and prays, but the man, who was not a believer, and whose life was not simple and good like the mountain people, dies as he reads the last verse.
- A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.
- Hoffmeyer is harassed by creditors, but thinks his troubles are over when he receives a legacy of $500. He sneaks away from his wife to make a "flash" around town, and comes home at 2 A.M., feeling happy. His joy is short-lived, however, when he finds the door locked, and his spouse on the other side demands the money before she will permit him to enter. He takes half of it and hides it under a barrel, and his wife, peeping behind the curtain, sees him. After he has retired she goes out to get the rest of the money, and Hoffmeyer locks the door and refuses to let her in until she sends in the money. Clad in her nightgown, she is being thoroughly chilled, when she sees men approaching and runs away. Frightened, Hoffmeyer, clad in his pajamas, goes out to bring her back. The chase is joined in by neighbors and police, presenting ludicrous situations, until Hoffmeyer catches up with his spouse and is arrested with her. The police magistrate in the night court suffers an injury to his dignity when the struggling pair are brought before him, but he quickly counts the money taken from them and fines them $500.
- The forerunner of all serials, "What Happened to Mary" was a series of 12 monthly one-reel episodes, each a complete entity in itself, revolving its immediate dramatic and melodramatic problems within the framework of a single episode and designed more for story and suspense situations than action. Episode Titles (q.v.): #1: "The Escape from Bondage"; #2: "Alone in New York"; #3: "Mary in Stage Land"; #4: "The Affair at Raynor's"; #5: "A Letter to the Princess"; #6: "A Clue to Her Parentage"; #7: "False to Their Trust"; #8: "A Will and a Way"; #9: "A Way to the Underworld"; #10: "The High Tide of Misfortune"; #11: "A Race to New York"; #12: "Fortune Smiles."
- A father who is obsessed with music won't let his daughter marry anyone who isn't a musician, so the girl's fiancé poses as a violin player
- A royal girl is placed in the care of a peasant woman who has a child the same age and raises them as sisters. On her deathbed, the noble lady sends for her child. Gretchen instead sends her own daughter Lena, who takes her place at court.
- A princess is kidnapped by Satan and thrown into a dungeon. Her lover, the brave Knight of the Snows, must then go on a journey to rescue her.
- This early color film records the Indian celebrations relating to the coronation of King George V.
- The most famous magician is outdone in this film, for, by the simple means of a wand and an empty glass, toys are transformed into animals, animals into flowers and flowers into a bevy of beautiful girls.
- George Melies's second adaption of the classical fairy-tale, from 1912.
- Bob Madden returns home slightly intoxicated and his father angrily commands him to leave the place and shift for himself. The next morning he goes, leaving his father a note: "Dear Dad, I am going out West and try to make a man of myself. I hope some day you will be proud of me. Your son. Bob." His father relents and, after tracing him to the station, buys a ticket for the same place. In the meanwhile, Rob has arrived, and reading a notice that cowboys with outfits are wanted on the Carter ranch, he buys an outfit from a man near the station and starts for the Carter ranch. However, the foreman will not have him, as he confesses that he cannot rope, so Bob rides on until he comes upon an Outlaw's Camp, and is glad to accept their rough hospitality. In the meanwhile, the ranchman, Joseph Carter, receives his new automobile, but being unable to take his daughter, Jessie, sends her with the foreman for a ride. The machine breaks down and the chauffeur returns for parts, while the foreman takes his opportunity to force his attentions upon Jessie, her cries bring Bob and the outlaws to the scene. The foreman recognizes the outlaw chief and returning to the ranch, starts out at the head of the cowboys to capture the band. Bob has loaned Jessie his horse to return home, and the outlaws have just broke camp, so when the foreman and the boys return they only succeed in capturing Bob and hustle him off as an outlaw. Jessie arrives at the ranch, learns where the boys have gone, so together with her father, rides to the rescue, arriving just as his father comes along. The two fathers learn that they are old friends. The man at the station recognizes Bob, and general rejoicing takes place.