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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 girl in the forest found a broken lily and brought it to her grandfather, who at that time thought about the horrors of the outbreak of World War I, and the broken lily reminds him of poor Belgium. In response to a granddaughter's request to tell a fairy tale - he tells her about the lily.
- Dud steals a gentleman's pipe and smokes it. But his exhaled smoke becomes a spirit who lifts him into the sky and hooks him on a crescent moon.
- Colonel Heeza Liar is the star of the first animated series featuring a recurring character. In this story he comes to the rescue of a baseball team and becomes the star pitcher and hitter.
- A father and daughter each enjoy their printed "Grouch Chaser" cartoons, which come to life for the audience. Meanwhile, the daughter is secretly planning to elope.
- Rare plagiarized version of Winsor McCay's animated short film "Gertie the Dinosaur" created by John Randolph Bray in 1915. It shows an animated dinosaur doing several shenanigans in a prehistoric natural setting.
- When a happy old man with a hole in his head drinks the most incredible things happen. Simple and fun about reality versus fantasy. The first Swedish animated film.
- On Al Falfa's not so real farm, he is able to grow such delicacies as a pitcher of beer and an alcoholic cocktail. He feeds the cocktail to his willing cow, Clara. But that drink makes her go a little wild, she who starts to chase Al Falfa through his vast and geographically diverse property. But since his farm isn't really real, Al Falfa can use some interesting techniques to get away from Clara.
- Colonel Heeza Liar doesn't need to see a battle to write it up. Not he. He sits in the trenches, his trusty typewriter on his knees and rips off "eye-witness" descriptions that would make "our special correspondent at the front" blush for shame. His success is his undoing, though. He is given a camera and has to go out on the firing line to photograph the action he so vividly describes. The old Colonel can't see his way out of this, so he just goes. Setting up his camera in fear and trembling, he lets loose on the crank and all is well until the leaden hail starts imitating a snowstorm in Alaska. The Colonel is inspired with the courage of a man who knows there's no escape, and dodges the larger shot with an almost jubilant agility. His tripod is shot from under his camera, but the Colonel keeps on cranking. Hundreds of shots, any one of which carries sweet repose, sneak through his shifty legs, under his flapping arms, through his very fingers, but still he cranks. It would be most undignified to say that the Colonel was a "crank on pictures," so we'll leave that out. Suddenly Heeza feels himself hoisted from behind by a treacherous shot, and riding a cannonball through the clouds. He lands amongst friends, though, and surprises them with his sudden terror when told he is to be "decorated" for his bravery.
- Short promotional film about dental health.
- Short early commercial for a radio station.
- This is not one film, but two. In the first, a man is upset over the shocking modern women's fashions that reveal the ankles. In the second, the man buys a fashionable hat, but is mocked by his wife.
- Laura tells her companions at Miss Syntax's seminary that Jim, her sweetheart, is to visit her that afternoon. Shortly afterward, Jim climbs the fence surrounding the school playground, and after greeting the them girls, shows a copy of the "Grouch Chaser." The girls get a great laugh out of "Silas Bunkum's Boarders Picnic" in which Silas, his wife and their three guests spend a lively day in the country. They spread their cloth and prepare to eat on the grass, but a huge spider from an overhanging tree steals the old maid's wig and carries it up into the branches. A bird comes along and lays an egg in it. The boss of the whole situation, however, is the Limburger cheese, which finally compels even the dog to retreat. The bird is frightened from the wig-nest by the return of the spider and the spider drops the egg on the dog's head as he prepares for another attack on the cheese. The bird gets a whiff of the cheese and, asphyxiated, drops into the open mouth of the dog. A snake passes through the tunnels in the cheese and remarks that, "This subway air is awful." Finally, both humans and animals are vanquished, and the victorious cheese is left in possession of the field. Hearing the principal coming, Jim looks about for a place to hide. As she comes out of the door, he is obliged to jump into a barrel of rain water. Miss Syntax discovers the book in Glady's hand and is soon chuckling over "Kid Kelly Krusoe" in which Billy is reading the classic story of Robinson arid his man Friday. Dozing off, Billy is transformed in his dream into a regular Crusoe, with goat-skin suit and a parrot in place of a watch-dog. He finds "Friday," sure enough, and together they have some funny adventures until Billy is awakened by his mother's call to dinner. As they finish looking at this cartoon, Jim in the rain-water barrel, sneezes loudly, and Miss Syntax discovers him. As a punishment for the invasion of the school grounds, Jim is forced to stand, wet and shivering, until they look at the last cartoon, "Mr. Hicks in Nightmareland," in which Hercules, the oppressed, is seen smoking a big perfecto while sitting on the windowsill. At the approach of his better half, he puts the cigar in his pants pocket, and shortly afterwards falls asleep. He dreams that he has descended to the "Heated Region" and the devil proceeds to make him feel "at home." He is invited to eat some smoking dynamite bombs, but they all blow up just as he reaches for them. He is harassed by imps and denizens of the lower regions, and finally a miniature devil applies a fiery torch to his trousers. As the blaze burns him, he wakes up, and finds that his cigar has set fire to his pocket, and that the smoke is being noticed by Mrs. Hicks, who jumps up, seizes a fire extinguisher, and turns it upon him compelling him to jump out of the window to escape. Miss Syntax restores the book to Jim with a warning to never again invade the sacred precincts of the seminary.
- Shoppers mistake the meaning of the sign in a shop window.
- The romantic escapades of two couples at the beach form the framing story for four animated cartoons.
- Dyspeptic Daniel is seated in a restaurant where he proceeds to make it uncomfortable and disagreeable for the rest of the diners. Magazines and papers which are handed him as temper emollients, are thrown aside by the irascible Daniel. Finally a copy of "The Animated Grouch Chaser" is placed before him. One glance at the cover serves to supplant clouds with sunshine and Daniel begins to delve into the book. The first cartoon series which meets his gaze is "Jones' Hair Tonic will Grow Hair Instantaneously." We are at once made acquainted with a congenial bald-headed man, who, in his youth, had never been warned against patent medicines, hair restorers, and bust reducers, and our new friend rubs his shining pate generously with the restorer. The result is prodigious. Hair immediately crops out, and following a second application, the hair grows out and down over the victim's face. He resembles the wild man from Borneo under a circus tent when his wife sees him. She shears the hair off with difficulty. By this time Dyspeptic Daniel is convulsed with laughter, He turns a page and finds another series, "A Duckling's Repast." A curious duckling, knowing that it was a cat and not a duckling that was at one time killed by curiosity, swims around a cake of soap which has been left on a stone in the lake. Little Ducky eats the concentrated bubbles and the agony she goes through is cleverly depicted on the screen. Finally, the duckling starts to blow out soap bubbles. Mother Duck is alarmed and to prevent her charge from getting into more trouble, makes a meal of her. Of course, this is only a cartoon and the little duckling will be regenerated soon and entertain us some more. At the conclusion, Dyspeptic Daniel is so elated that he eats everything in sight.
- Little Herman, a queer-looking magician, juggles cannon balls, ducks lamps and a variety of other articles in a surprising and terrifying fashion. He even shoots himself out of the mouth of a cannon, and then shoots himself in again. This stunt reminds us of the man who jumped into the bramble bush, but Little Herman is more wonderful even than he.
- Dreamy Dud and his dog, Wag, are down-hearted because they haven't the money to go into a picture theater and see a Chaplin picture. A dime rolls out of the theater which someone has dropped and Dud picks it up. In the theater they see Chaplin fighting with a donkey. When he flirts with a girl, whose back is toward him, a policeman tries to arrest him. But the donkey and the policeman collide and exchange kicks, Chaplin laughs when the policeman is kicked over. Then the donkey kicks Chaplin and he flies into the air and lands in a lake. Dud wakes up and finds his father bending over him asking what he is dreaming about.
- Andy Estes has just returned from the store with a copy of the Grouch Chaser, which he gives to the cook. It is raining, and Andy inadvertently places his rubbers on the table, next to the carrots for the soup. The cook reads the Grouch Chaser and in a minute is in spasms of laughter. She first turns to "Hot Off the Pen," in which the old couple in bed are annoyed by a dog who persists in singing to them. The dog listens to a band-man play on a huge brass instrument, and decides that he has music in him. The artist runs short of ink, and looking at the dog, sees he has swallowed the bottle. The cook is convulsed with laughter, but continues to neglect the soup and goes on reading. "Nightmareland" next greets her gaze. The baseball fan has a dream in which he sees himself batting against a star pitcher. The pitcher serves up all kinds of grapevines and fadeaways and the fan strikes out. The cook, without taking her eyes from the book, drops Andy's rubbers into the soup. In the meantime Andy and his parents are waiting for dinner. "Dr. E.Z. Bear" is the next cartoon. He treats a hippopotamus with pills which have to be shoveled into Lady Hippo's mouth. Instant relief is noted. By this time the angry father comes out and demands the dinner. The cook serves soup in which Andy's rubber has been boiling. The whole family then takes the book and sees "Tom, the Tamer." Tom is blowing his brass instrument, and the elephant, wishing to help him fill "that thing with wind," blows through the other end of the horn. Tom is inflated to four times his size. The elephant then supplies a vacuum cleaner and draws Tom, not only back to his natural size, but into the cleaner.
- Mrs. Dinge, having decided to take a half holiday, provides her squalling half-tone production with the liquid nourishment that gave Milwaukee a place on the map. She then departs for her raid on bargain counters unknown. Another infant, of the bleating bovine variety, likewise deserted by a mother who carries the nourishment with her, endeavors to scrape up an acquaintance with Dinge, Jr., but the miniature chocolate cream drop finds that the calf's tongue produces on his calabash complexion the soft, soothing effect of a coarse-grained emery wheel, and registers his objections to this sort of facial massage at the top of his lungs. The Police Dog hears sounds of distress, and rushes to the rescue. But the calf has it on the pup, and doesn't take any pains to conceal it. The "K-9" sends out a signal of distress. But sleeping is the thing that Office Piffles does beat, and it takes more than a police whistle to wake him. The pup finally gets the cagey sleuth to realize that something's amiss. Piffles manages to rope the cussed calf, who, as soon as he realizes he has Piffles on the string, starts gaily forward at a speed that finally lands the luckless officer down a chimney and onto the furnace griddle. Meanwhile, the Police Dog exercises his talents as a peacemaker, with results that would make the Hague Tribunal green with envy.
- The film opens with a scene in a hotel lobby. Bobby, the bellboy, is busily engaged in a perusal of "The Grouch Chaser." Mae, the telephone operator, is attending to everything but the switchboard. A travelling man enters and soon is telling a story. Bobby is apparently dissatisfied with the way in which the story was told and refers them to "The Grouch Chaser," which contains a cartoon illustrating the same idea. "Tales of Silas Bunkum" is the first tickler. Silas tells his yarns in such a way as to hold the attention of all in the lobby. The salesman takes hold of Mae's hand, and caresses it fondly. There is a large solitaire diamond on the hand. The hook is again referred to and Silas is seen to be the target for all kinds of fruit and vegetables. A crook, meantime, has entered and removed the ring from Mae's finger, she being too absorbed in "The Grouch Chaser" to notice it. She discovers her loss later and accuses the salesman. The crook is unsuspected and goes to register. He is joined by the salesman, and they turn the pages of the book to "A Chip of the Old Block." In this story an artist draws a girl and leaves the studio. The artist's son enters and draws a picture of his father adjoining it. The drawings come to life and some funny situations are resultant. The salesman throws back, his head to laugh, and the crook tries to remove his scarf pin, but is caught in the act and turned over to the police. "Mr. Hicks in Nightmareland:" Hicks dreams he has a powder that will neutralize his wife's irascibility and starts to blow the magical powder into the air upon returning home from a café. He wakes up to find that he is blowing into his wife's face. Mrs. Hicks is thus irritated, and kicks Hercules into the waste basket.
- Mr. Danbury, a theatrical manager, is visited by Ellis Harcourt, who seeks a position with one of Danbury's companies. Danbury tells him that, since he is unknown to him, he must prove his ability to act before being given any encouragement. Danbury takes a vacation, and invites some of his friends to go for a cruise with him on his yacht. One of his guests produces the latest edition of the Animated Grouch Chaser. The first picture they look at is "Kid Kelly'' in which the now famous juvenile gets a job as office boy. The kid and his dog manage to make things lively in the office, but at last the boss finds that he has had enough of Kelly's antics, and he and "Jip," the dog, are invited to take a permanent holiday. In "Silas Bunkum's Boarding House" we see Silas entertaining his guests with some amateur theatricals. Among the gifted performers are Mr. Grunt, the pig, and Miss Quack, the duck. Mr. Moor the calf cartoonist, does some clever stunts and Mr. Grunt brings down the house with his imitations of well-known men. While these cartoon pictures are being enjoyed, a tramp, who has come aboard just before the yacht's sailing, is enjoying himself while stowed away in a chest that stands on the deck near to the table where the party is sitting. One of the ladies, not caring to drink her champagne, pours it through a hole in the lid of the chest. The concealed tramp greedily laps it up as it descends through the hole. Later, at the height of their festivities he startles everyone by suddenly popping out of the chest. Danbury, after hearing the tramp's explanation of how he got there gives orders to have him put ashore at the first stopping place. As he is about to be put ashore, he turns his back on the crowd and fumbles with his beard. When he turns around, he is revealed as Harcourt, the actor, who has been masquerading in an exceptionally clever "tramp" make-up. Convinced at last that he can act, Mr. Danbury promises him an engagement, and invites him to remain as a guest on the yacht.
- The chicken thieving of Rastus is discovered by Farmer Corntossel who pursues the thief through the haystacks. They have several encounters, but Rastus has peculiarly elastic legs and a strangely bullet-proof body. The farmer's shots roll off his back like marbles, but finally an axe lays Rastus low. He is buried in the garden, but is resurrected in the strangest manner by an explosion of dynamite. The sudden appearance of a ferocious white goat causes the two to forget their enmity and unite against the animal.
- Wag steals a hat and cane. He meets Miss Cat in an alley and flirts with her. Just as the two are spooning on a log, along comes Mr. Cat and chases Wag. Dud tries to save him and runs after him. He trees Mr. Cat and shakes the tree, whereupon Mr. Cat descends on his head and is administering a beating when Dud wakes up to find his mother pulling his hair.
- Officer Piffle, of the "White Lights" squad, seeks relaxation from his labors by taking a plunge in the harbor, A hungry shark, on the lookout for eats, makes a play for the cop, and a merry chase follows. The Pinkerton Pup decides to teach Piffle a lesson, and makes off with the officer's pants. He carries them to a nearby pawnbroker, and endeavors to sell them to him for three "beans." The pawnbroker can't see it, so the pup decides to try the butcher, who trades a large juicy steak for Piffle's pants. Meanwhile the shark and Officer Piffle fight it out to a finish. The shark is glad to get rid of his tormentor, who looks in vain for his trousers. Piffle substitutes a barrel for his missing garment. The barrel is a tight fit which fact is noted by "Billy" Goat, who, with a well-directed butt, sends Piffle rolling toward the station house where he finally lands on top of the Captain. Charged with assault and conduct unbecoming to an officer, Piffle is left to languish and soliloquize in a cell.
- A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
- Officer Piffle is strong for the fair sex, and consequently suffers acutely from an attack of "nurse-girlitis." While indulging in his favorite outdoor sport, ogling the girls, he spies a dusky Ethiopian stealing a pig. A battle ensues in which Piffle comes out second best. Hastily donning a pair of skates, the stalwart officer pursues the flying thief, who arrives home safely in the lead. The Pinkerton Pup arrives soon after, and captures the stolen hog. Piffle also arrives and gets an awful deal from the coon's wife. He is thrown out the window and lands astride the fleeing swine. The unlucky Senegambian is also thrown out by his wife and lands on top of Piffle. In this position the two of them are landed at the station house by the Pinkerton Pup who drives the hog in that direction. Right in on top of the captain lands the flying cavalcade. The Pinkerton Pup again proves that he can deliver the goods.
- A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
- Dreamy Dud sees his dog, Wag, making love to a cat and is congratulating himself on not being susceptible to the charms of the fair sex, when he spies a little girl making eyes at him. Dreamy Dud is not long in reaching her side and soon is in love with her. He is sitting on a box singing lullabies to her dolls when he is awakened by his father who compliments him on his extremely fine voice.
- The Yankee explorer clambers into the car of his balloon, gives the signal, soars into the air and starts for Africa. It goes without saying that when he gets there his adventures are varied and extraordinary. The animals of the desert, the pyramids and the sphinx itself combine to make his hunt a series of amusing adventures.
- Dreamy Dud takes a swim in the river. He is chased by a turtle but manages to escape its clutches. Later he dives to the bottom of the river, where he sees a beautiful mermaid. He is very much frightened by a watchdog fish's loud barking, but after a desperate encounter, worsts it. Dreamy then makes love to the mermaid and shows her all the tricks in which he is expert. She is so delighted that she kisses him. Dreamy is transported to the seventh heaven, when he wakes up to find it was too good to be true.
- Dud and Wag, his dog, while out on a lark, make a visit to the Zoo, but the monkey beats them both up, the elephant gets peeved when Wag bites his tail and throws Wag into the lagoon and squirts water all over Dud. The kangaroo chases them both clear out of the picture, just as Dud's mother calls him for the forty-eleventh time.
- The Police Dog, snooping around, comes on a familiar scent and follows the whiff of an old acquaintance to a butcher shop. The Senegambian presiding shies a ham-bone at him. There's no "bonework" about the Pup's catching ability, however, and he scampers off to gnaw at leisure. He meets up with a mastiff, who takes charge of the bone, much to the Pup's sorrow and righteous anger. Meantime, the butcher, hearing a noise outside, and thinking it to be the recurrent Pup, flings out a weighty bone that knocks a cop senseless. The Pinkerton Pup chases the mastiff into a large water-main, but comes out considerably mussed. It was a "pipe" for the mastiff, who runs from there into a watchman's shanty. The Pup blows three shrill blasts that wake Officer Piffle on his beat. Piffle rushes in, and is tipped off by the Pup that a thief lurks within. Piffle rushes in and when he rushes out again, it is with great speed, and in full dress, for a Turkish bath. But in the scuffle, the Pinkerton Pup manages to connect with the bone, and is last seen cavorting brightly on for parts unknown.