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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.
- Two prehistoric suitors, one a mailman, compete for the affections of a prehistoric maiden and a dinosaur.
- A caveman falls victim to a prehistoric prankster, but he is avenged by his pet chicken.
- 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.
- Newspaper clerk wants to be a detective, uses a missing finger clue to catch a murderer.
- 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.
- 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?
- A duel in France in which the Chevalier de la Roche kills the Vicomte de Valdeterre, results in an ongoing feud between the two families. Years later, in New Orleans, Valdeterre's son Henri arranges a duel with the son of the Chevalier de la Roche, known as the Little Chevalier. Overwhelmed at the swordsmanship of the Little Chevalier, Henri faints and, upon regaining consciousness, leaves the de la Roche estate. Later, at a ball held at the governor's mansion, Henri meets Diane, the daughter of the late Chevalier and, smitten, begins to court her. This arouses the jealousy of Delaup, who is the governor's secretary and an ardent suitor of Diane's. Delaup discovers a royal proclamation sent to Henri, granting him the power to seize the de la Roche estate, and attempts to use the document to force Diane to marry him. In response, Diane sends for Henri, and when he arrives, he finds the Little Chevalier waiting to duel. Henri's refusal to fight is met with the Little Chevalier removing his cloak to reveal that he is really Diane. The long term feud between the two families is then ended with Diane and Henri's marriage.
- 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.
- These pictures were taken at the Philadelphia Mint by permission of the United States Treasury Department. We see raw material transformed into a fiery liquid, cast into ingots and pressed in rolling mills, where it undergoes twenty-eight different operations. Another machine pounds out the blanks, which are annealed, cleaned and rounded off at the edges, at which stage they are cast into the coining machine that stamps out the finished coin. This is examined for defects, counted and weighed by machine.
- 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.
- This state is the winter mecca for thousands of wealthy people. While the rest of us are worrying with the furnace, these folks are getting sunburned. There the floating palaces of the modern Methusalas dot the rippling waters. We peep on their decks and into their cabins and catch an intimate glimpse of those whose names adorn the Blue Book. We see them at the hotels, promenading the beaches, bathing and riding, or attempting to ride the frolicsome surf toboggan. An aeroplane-taxi costs only a dollar a minute. It was pretty steep, but the cameraman hired one for three minutes and took one of the most remarkable panoramas ever taken to use in this picture.
- 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.
- 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 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 presents the most sublime of earthly spectacles. Most of the views were made shortly after the heaviest fall of snow at the canyon in recent years. Clouds form in the canyon and give to the scene an ethereal aspect. Tourists are seen descending into the canyon, some on foot and others astride burros. Passing Hermit's Rest, the party descends through the Devil's Corkscrew, a dangerous and precipitous pass in the side of the mountain. In the canyon the party rests at the river, and then returns to the starting point by way of the Bright Angel Trail.
- At a modern American military school the old "three R's" of "readin, 'ritin and 'rithmetic" have been supplemented by a fourth, riding. This picture shows scenes of young America at the Culver Military Academy. The Culver cavalry troops starts on a two-day hike, and the boys, after getting their horses in shape, set forth. Interesting "shots" of them as they progress on their journey illustrating their orderly conduct, the lessons of self-reliance and courage bring out clearly the great lesson of "preparedness."
- 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.
- 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 Native Woman dies, and a town of men take in her orphaned daughter.
- After hearing a lecture by a war correspondent, Boy Scout Jimmy desires to be of service to his country.
- This film shows that many schools have complete courses in woodcraft for boys. Two-day canoe trips are part of the course. While out camping, the boys enjoy the simple life, living in tents, taking their daily swim and cooking their own meals. Matches are not needed, and it is a treat to watch the boys starting a fire without them. The flapjacks they turn out would arouse the envy of a Broadway chef. Their bodies are hardened by such sports as racing, swimming and spear throwing. In the evening they dance around the campfire and indulge in such simple games as knocking each other off the stool. The ending of this split reel shows a boy blowing the bugle and the camp breaking up.
- This famous poem by Tennyson is made the subject of a scenic comprising a tableau of pictures that interpret the mood of the poem. We follow the falls bickering down the valley and the brook as it chatters over stony ways in little sharps and trebles, as it steals by lawns and grassy plots and murmurs under moon and stars in brambling wilderness, as it hurries down the hills past town and under bridges, winding in and out with here and there a foamy flake until it joins the brimming river.
- Photographed at a New York aquarium under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society. Fish breathe oxygen from the water. If a fish is placed in a small amount of water he soon exhausts the oxygen and dies of suffocation. The New York Aquarium has solved the question of supplying the oxygen on long journeys even when fish are placed in small jars. The jar is first filled with pure sea water. The fish to be shipped are placed in it and the jar is inverted in a tank full of water. Sufficient oxygen is then admitted to force out one-third of the water. The jar is tightly corked under water and hermetically sealed with waxed linen. The jar is then packed in a barrelful of sawdust or excelsior, addressed and shipped to its destination. The fish will live for more than fourteen days in a jar of small size. It is therefore possible to ship them from New York to any part of the United States and to most parts of Europe.
- This scenic of the Holy Land opens with a view of the Garden of Gethsemane, now a Russian monastery. Other views include a panorama of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives; of the busy mart in what was once the Pool of Siloam; of lepers and beggars wailing for alms; of the ancient Wailing Place of the Jews at whose walls men and women are forever wailing, as they did thousands of years ago. Among other scenes are Christian Pilgrims carrying the cross along the way to Calvary; the Gate of Damascus; a caravan going through the desert and the little town of Bethlehem. Views of the latter include women making cakes and using goat-skins as churns, people picking olives on the hills around Bethlehem, and tending their flocks today, just as they did centuries ago.
- The scenic starts with a panoramic view of Provincetown, taken from the top of the Pilgrims Monument. Situated on the tip end of Cape Cod, Provincetown is the favorite rendezvous for artists and fisher-folk. Crooked, narrow streets, lined with ancient shade trees and quaint old houses, zig-zag through it. Life is almost primitively simple and bears many survivals of olden times. Such symbols of civilization as dashing, crashing motor trucks and brass-buttoned cops are considered as myths. "Ye Olde Towne Crier" is still wandering through the streets, calling out the news of a sale, a death or a scandal. Life is an unceasing round of amusements for kiddies and artists.
- Jonah Morpheus liked his bed so well that it was almost impossible to get him up in the morning. The schemes utilized to get him out of bed provide a laugh in every foot of this film. In the finale Jonah is for once landed at his work on time, but in a most unusual unnatural manner.
- 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.
- 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.
- A picture reminiscent of Longfellow's poem, "The Courting of Miles Standish." Some three hundred years ago a poor handful of "Separatists" fled from England to Holland. After being betrayed by their shipmaster and almost annihilated by soldiers they reached Leyden, Holland. Miles Standish who joined them, told them that they had been promised religious liberty in America. Although at that time a voyage to America was a perilous enterprise, they resolutely set sail in the Mayflower. The ship wallowed through one storm after another until, after almost four months at sea, "an invincible army of twelve" was set ashore in the New World. After Standish selects a site the others were landed from the Mayflower. Among the first to land was a young student, John Alden. Shortly after landing the pilgrims made a treaty of peace with the Indian Chief Massosoit. Miles Standish loved a young maiden, Priscilla. As told in Longfellow's poem, he asked John Alden to propose marriage for him. Aiden went forward on the mission, but the maiden smiled and said, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" Alden told Standish of the result of his errand, and Standish accused him of betrayal. Soon, however, an arrow laid the dauntless captain low, and a messenger brought the news to Priscilla and Alden. Pressing her close to his heart, as forever his own he exclaimed, "Those whom the Lord hath united let no man put asunder."
- This picture shows our future captains at drills and maneuvers at West Point Academy, afoot and on horse. It is surcharged with American spirit, thrilling and inspirational.
- 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.
- Almond-eyed Li Chi lived in China, the daughter of the wise Mandarin Ching Ho. Ching Ho wishes his daughter to marry Chung Wang, but the maiden is true to her lover, Chang, and vows that she will marry no other. Whereat the father locks the maiden in her room over the stream. An idea comes to her. She writes a note telling her lover to come to her when the leaves begin to fall from the cherry tree, and placing it in a coconut shell, launches it upon the stream flowing beneath her window. It drifts to the feet of Chang, who, being a man of action, shakes the leaves from the cherry tree. Then he hurries to the prison of his sweetheart, rescues her and flees with her to the gardener's house. The angry father pursues them, but the gardener shelters them and aids them to escape to an island, where they live happily until the father burns the house over their heads. But the gods love the two lovers, and saving them from the fire, transform them into a pair of snowy doves.
- This historic and rare footage of Palestine focuses on the holy Christian and Jewish sites of Jerusalem.
- A rare sport in countries where steep hills and much snow make this dangerous game possible.
- A grotesque comedy of the prehistoric age. Mannikins are used with novel effect.
- On a desolate rock, only three hundred yards square, off the southern tip of South Africa, there live almost half a million strange unusual birds, of different species with a code of unusual laws and strict observance of caste. The black cormorants, little known outside of Malagas Island. Between them and the white solan geese, a strict "color line" is drawn. In the silence of the African night and the splendor of the moon, each cormorant and each solan hies to the clan crevice in the rocks and pays a wordless graceful courtship to his mate. The strangest birds on the island, however, are the penguins. They cannot fly, but their wings help them in diving. The eggs of the penguin are a great delicacy and thousands are sent to the London market every year.
- A scenic taken on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation.
- 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.
- T. Haviland Hicks contracts an intimate friendship with Theophilus. They are freshmen. Hicks is saturated with good humor. Theophilus' main characteristic is timidity and the least excitement makes him faint. The sophomores, indignant at Hick's abuse of the banjo, prepare to haze him. Theophilus overhears their scheme and warns Hicks. Hicks hurls a defy at the sophomores to the effect that they are welcome to haze him, but if they fail to do so, Theophilus and himself are to be secure from hazing for all time. They accept the defy and on the appointed night repair to his room wrapped up in pillow cases. Hicks smashes the drop light against the wall and the room is steeped in darkness. When a light is secured, Hicks is not to be found and the sophomores conclude that he has dived through the window. In fact, he is right among them, wrapped up in a pillow case. The duped sophomores plan to avenge themselves. Hicks gets wind of their scheme and awaits developments with absolute calm. On the fated night the sophomores drag Hicks out of bed and carry him off to their lair. They proclaim him to be the original "missing link" and urge him to do an imitation of a monkey; but he dives through a window into a tennis net held ready for the purpose by a number of freshmen. The pursuing sophomores encounter a superior number of freshmen and are roughly handled. Thereupon the sophomores post a defy, daring Hicks and his class to substitute the freshman colors for the sophomore colors, which will be found floating from the flag pole at a stated hour. Hicks dons a coat of mail, disguises Theophilus as a gorilla and succeeds in routing the sophomores and hoisting the freshman colors. Hicks becomes the most famous man at college. Moving Picture World, September 1, 1917