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- Three cavemen court Miss Araminta Rockface. She favors the one who apparently slew the Missing Link ... but a dinosaur did the deed.
- A caveman falls victim to a prehistoric prankster, but he is avenged by his pet chicken.
- Two prehistoric suitors, one a mailman, compete for the affections of a prehistoric maiden and a dinosaur.
- Once in a country called Happyland there lived a good and wise King. To his beautiful daughter, Princess Loree, the King presents a priceless pearl necklace. A mysterious stranger arrives. He meets the Princess and they fall in love at first sight. He reveals to her that he comes from a country where the people are forever in gloom and he is here to learn the secret of happiness. He meets with a number of adventures which teach him some of the principles of happiness, but not its Master Secret. One day a goblin takes the necklace and brings it to his chief, who hides it in the wall of the Goblin's Cave. The Princess and the people are grief-stricken and the stranger decides to find it. He enters the Enchanted Woods and after a series of adventures reaches a secret passage which leads him into the Cave of the Goblins. The chief of the goblins promises to return the necklace if the stranger will brave any perils that may confront him. The latter consents and passes undaunted through them all. He obtains the necklace and returns it to the Princess, whose happiness is restored. The King is willing to give him half his kingdom as a reward, but all the stranger asks is to be allowed to speak to the Princess one hour every day for seven days. At the end of the seventh day he leaves, promising to return shortly. Weeks pass. The King informs the Princess the newly-crowned King of Roseland is coming to pay homage to Happyland and that she better don her finest apparel and help him entertain the illustrious guest. The King of Roseland arrives and the Princess is happy, for in him she recognizes the Stranger. She inquires if he has discovered the Master Secret. He answers in the affirmative, saving true happiness consists in deeds that bring happiness to others, and in the realization of one's ideals, love crowning all.
- A Native Woman dies, and a town of men take in her orphaned daughter.
- Chris, a student, ambitious in his own way but resisting tutors, was always in trouble until, at an auction sale, he purchased an old Oriental lamp because of its odd design, not dreaming that it was possessed of magical powers which he discovered when he began polishing it. A huge slave appeared, told him the lamp was his master and that he was prepared to obey any command that its owner, Chris, might give. As a test Chris bade the slave to transform himself into another Chris. He then sent the double of himself to school, where he was made to take the thrashings intended for Chris and to serve as the butt of many jokes and experiences meant for the real Chris. When the genie finally decides that he does not relish serving as Chris' double, the real trouble and fun begins, involving Chris' father and mother, teachers, family doctor, and farcical mix-ups develop with great rapidity. The doings of "Chris and the Wonderful Lamp" in the days of the Twentieth Century rival the best of Arabian Night tales.
- 1861 Kentucky is divided North v South. Seventeen-year-old Gum and Skinny like Susie. The boys join opposing armies. In the war, Gum takes Skinny to hospital. Skinny escapes to Susie's house; Gum takes him prisoner. Susie makes her choice.
- An educational nature film devoted to the life and habits of the Remora, or Shark-Sucker. He inhabits the warm seas of the globe, and reaches a length of nearly three feet and a weight of four pounds. On top of his head is a curious disc which can exert a tremendous suctional power. Many large fish in the tropics carry one or more uninvited passengers. The strength with which a Remora can cling to an object is surprising; a 32-pound pail is an easy burden for a one-pound shark-sucker. The natives of China, Africa and Cuba use this strange fish for catching turtles and other denizens of the deep. They tie a string to his tail and haul in the prey to which he attaches himself. The last scene of this entertaining picture shows a turtle weighing 63 pounds which has caught by a 1½-pound shark-sucker.
- Two cavemen invent the wheel, but when they are frustrated in their attempts to have a dinosaur pull a cart, conclude that the device is useless.
- A scenic taken on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation.
- This is a puzzle story arranged by Sam Loyd of a billboard or rather of the evolution of a word thereon from pants to nails. On the surface there seems to be no connection between pants and nails, yet it is as easy as eating pie to make nails out of pants if you know how. The first word advertises the product of a clothing man. But he has made his reckoning without the host, or rather a number of hosts. For a florist, a furrier, a jeweler, a plumber, a dry-goods man, a carpenter, a physician, a lawyer, a mason, a ship's chandler and a hardware man happen along one after the other, and by merely pasting over one letter of the word on the billboard with a different letter, each alters the word into an advertisement of his own product. The film is ingeniously arranged so as to give the onlooker a chance to use his wits in guessing the next word on the billboard. In the end a goat comes along and eats up the poster. This goat is a puzzle in itself. Is it a real goat? Who knows?
- The beauties and marvels of the chemical world are depicted in the changes which occur during the formation of these little-understood phenomena of nature. Grotesque and fanciful in design, they appear on the screen. Now a regiment of bayonets, now the paved block of a city street, a silver tree branching before one's eyes, a nebula of shooting stars, skyrockets and fantastic flowers come and go, each more wondrous than the last.
- After hearing a lecture by a war correspondent, Boy Scout Jimmy desires to be of service to his country.
- Harry Burnhart, who has inherited the Eclipse Tool Company, leaves the running of the company to efficiency expert Carl Vibert. When Vibert gives Pop Grinell, the company's oldest employee, two weeks' notice because he is slowing down on the job, the firm's advertising manager, George Extell, appeals to Burnhart to reinstate Pop. For his efforts, George himself is dismissed. Bidding farewell to his sweetheart Muriel Clemm, George heads West where he secures a job in a competitor's tool company, soon becoming the star salesman. His success leads Burnhart to offer him complete charge of the Eclipse Tool Company, and the salesman returns triumphantly to exact revenge on Vibert by giving him "the customary two weeks." However, his conscience gets the better of him and George relents, rehires Vibert and marries Muriel.
- This scenic is interesting by virtue of the marked contrast between the rural scenery of Albion and that of our own country. We still boast pristine forests and regions untrod by man. But England is a tight little isle, teeming with population. Nature there bears no aspect of rugged grandeur. Everything, be it sward or tree or brook, is trimmed down to a nicety, according to model. Everything is orderly and prearranged as things in Toyland. We gain this impression as we follow the tourists along English roads, past quaint little houses, where everything is peaceful and serene and unruffled, down the banks of the Thames, under bridges and through massive locks.
- Ellen likes the courage of Jimmy, a bankrupt inventor, who fails to get any money for his experiments in making matches from his cousin Charles. First she loses her purse so that Jimmy may find it, next she loans him money in a letter purporting to be from Charles. Jimmy is advised to heat the letter over sulfur after he succeeds in his invention of a safety match. He does so, and the invisible ink turns, disclosing a love note from Ellen.
- The eggs of the silkworm, called graine, are hatched out by artificial heat at the period when the mulberry leaves are ready for the feeding of the larvae. The moth of the silkworm lays about two hundred eggs. A view of the eggs hatching is shown. The silkworm molts about four times. When the caterpillars are mature they cease eating and ascend the brushwood branches or echelletes provided for them, in which they set about spinning their cocoons. They complete their cocoons in from three to four days, and in two or three days thereafter the cocoons are collected and the pupae killed to prevent further progress. Such cocoons as are selected for the production of the graine are freed from the external floss, and preserved at a temperature of 66 to 72 degree Fahrenheit. In about two weeks the moths appear.
- Newspaper clerk wants to be a detective, uses a missing finger clue to catch a murderer.
- This subject reviews the life of the marine. At the Culver Naval School the day begins at six o'clock. The morning is spent in such exercises as boxing, racing, scaling fences and playing tennis. This is followed by a Cutter Drill. In the afternoon a race is usually held between cutters. Water sports play an important part in the life of a marine. The film shows the men giving remarkable exhibitions of fancy diving, sliding down the chute, and of the unique "chain dive." It ends with a series of scenes which show that marines are not only sailors, but crack soldiers as well.
- This picture depicts life in the U.S. Marine Corps. The scenes carry us through the various branches and phases of the daily jobs of a U.S. Marine. We see them in their barracks, at sea, and on the field of battle. We see them hard at play engaged in games of football, baseball and "Chinese boxing." Then comes the call to "business," and they embark on a man o' war bound for "somewhere." Close views are shown of gun practice and drills intended to keep them in perfect condition. Finally they land, and the various tasks which they perform on the water and on land, as cavalrymen, artillerymen and infantrymen are clearly pictured.
- This picture shows scenes of the processes used in extracting gold and diamonds from what appears to be ordinary mud. In the Joch Mine, one of the richest in the world, the miners have to descend to a level of three thousand feet below the surface of the earth. Kimberley is the center of the world's largest diamond mines and the offices of the company controlling the diamond mines in the Transvaal look like a Saratoga hotel. Many close views are shown of the famous Premier Mine where the great Cullinan diamond, weighing one and three-quarter pounds, was found. Extracting diamonds from the "blue earth" in which they are embedded, is pictured. This "blue earth" is brought to the surface and allowed to "weather" for a year. It is then dissolved into diamond mud, which is placed in a "pulsator" and the diamonds separated. A single day's output of diamonds is worth $55,000. The mine property is surrounded by an impenetrable barbed wire fence and the natives are confined in a compound during their period of service.
- A grotesque comedy of the prehistoric age. Mannikins are used with novel effect.
- Mulius Caesar, a great Roman Emperor, owes an odd number of millions to Liarus Bunko, the royal soothsayer and money-lender. He could pay off his debts by selling the royal garage, but this is too desperate a means to be given a moment's thought. Bunko is willing to content himself with Myria, the emperor's beautiful daughter, and call it "square." Myria hates Bunko, but is willing to sacrifice herself if she can save thereby the royal garage. At the betrothal banquet, Bunko presents her with a lazy slave, called Plento Morpheus. Plento falls at once in love with Myria, and flirts with her in the presence of Caesar and Bunko. He is sentenced to be eaten up by Leo, the terrible lion. Cast into the arena, he succeeds in outwitting his tormentors, and in substituting Bunko for himself as food for the lion. The lion offers no objection, as Morpheus is lean, while Bunko is fat. Caesar gets back his I.O.U.s, Myria and Morpheus are united and live happily ever after.
- A young man wanders into the park and filled with the calling of spring steps on the grass and admires the flowers. But a cop scares him away. He throws himself down on a bench to rest, and slowly his heavy eyelids close. Nature sleeps in sunlit peace, likewise does our bright young man. Dreaming dreams of ancient Greece with himself the young God Pan. With a vision of himself as Pan playing on the pipes there comes to him a maiden of rare beauty. They romp about the open fields of old Greece, the maiden fleet of foot and ever elusive. Pan pursues the maid, and they seat themselves upon a rock and whisper delicious nothings to each other.