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A chivalrous British officer takes the blame for his cousin's embezzlement and journeys to the American West to start a new life on a cattle ranch.

The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.

In honor bound, Stephen Fiske, Jr., son of a supposed millionaire, tells Doris Myhtle, his fiancée, that the death of his father has revealed that he has died penniless and left him a poor man. She is so disappointed she returns her engagement ring to him, which he throws into the fire. He is obliged to go to work as an ordinary laborer. She tells her Aunt Patience, with whom she lives, and the old lady confides the romance of her life to her. She was engaged to Stephen's father. She rejected him and it was the regret of her life, and almost broke her heart when he married another woman. One evening, Aunt Patience, after a day's shopping, entering her home, slips, injuring herself, and Stephen, returning from his day's work, finds her on the area step, and carries her into the house. He calls a doctor, who pronounces her injuries fatal. The old lady recognizes Stephen, of whom she is very fond, and who closely resembles his father. She expresses a hope that he and Doris will be wedded to each other, and again repeats the romance of her life. As she does so, visions of the happy retrospect appear before her and she passes away in thoughts of that past happiness, and a full realization of the joys that await her in the life beyond. Grieving at the loss of their good friend, Doris and Stephen, kneeling at her bedside, touch hands, and looking into each other's eyes, they ask each other if they will fulfill Aunt Patience's hope. The mutual fervor with which they silently embrace each other is their answer.

The poor student Balduin sells his mirror image to the satanic sorcerer Scapinelli. He falls in love with a countess and tries to win her over. But his mirror image receives a life of its' own and sabotages Balduin's every move.

The Little Tramp escapes from prison; saves a girl and her mother from drowning; and creates havoc at a swank party.

The life and career of Pancho Villa from young man to revolutionary leader is chronicled.

Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.

A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

Lieutenant Mordaunt and his little sweetheart, Yum Yum, has many pleasant hours in the land of the Rising Sun. So winning are the ways of the little Japanese maiden, that Jack Tar falls very, very deeply in love with her. When love enters all else is forgotten, and thus, when the time for the departure of the fleet arrives, the lieutenant awakens to find that it was all a dream, and that it is now time to be up and doing and leave his little sweetheart behind him. The fleet returns to port, and Mordaunt goes home to his people. Staying at the house are three of his cousins, who greet him boisterously, for being female cousins, they look forward to jolly times with the breezy sailor. Mordaunt's thoughts still turn to the land of the Rising Sun and to his little sweetheart far across the ocean. To their great disappointment, the cousins find a great change in their once cheerful playmate. In place of the breezy sailor man is a poor love-sick swain, who can do naught else but sigh the hours away. The girls find the source of the trouble in the shape of a half-finished letter to Japan, and they decide to have some fun. Arraying themselves in Japanese clothes, they annoy their cousin considerably by appearing before him in the garb he loves so well, only to disappear again into a thicket or behind a tree. Finally, the tormentors are surprised to see their big, manly cousin burst into tears. From that moment Mordaunt becomes more and more melancholy, and in fact, his parents begin to entertain grave fears as to his health. Meanwhile the little Japanese girl beyond the seas has not remained idle. With the energy and enterprise of her race, she has decided to follow her lover beyond the seas. After a long and weary voyage, the little Japanese maiden arrives in Europe. Having carefully rehearsed her part beforehand, the winsome Yum Yum finds little difficulty in finding her way to her lover, who is, by this time desperately ill. At first Mordaunt does not recognize Yum Yum, on account of her European dress, which becomes her so well, but when she again dons the kimono and flaunts again her dainty fan, the lieutenant recognizes her, and all their troubles are forgotten.

A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.

A man disguises himself as a lady in order to be near his newfound sweetheart, after her father has forbidden her to see him.

Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarves in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.

'Mid the pomp and splendor of their little kingdom the Lilliputians lead a life of peace and contentment under the wise and just rule of their beloved King Micros (height three feet). His daughter, Princess Piccolina (height 22 inches), loves the dashing cavalier. Prince Colibri (height three feet three), and he loves her. King Micros gives his consent to the marriage and in the capital great rejoicing follows. Near the Lilliputian capital there dwells a race of super-giants, ruled by King Cigas-the-Tall (height seven feet). King Cigas also is a slave to the charms of Princess Piccolina and at the first news of her engagement to another the giant king flares into a rage. He orders the princess brought before him. This is easy for the giant messengers. The princess is riding in her pony cart in the palace grounds and the giants detach the pony, and picking up cart and princess, bear them away to the throne of the superman. King Cigas-the-Tall, on his knees, offers his kingdom to the tiny princess. The proposal is spurned. King Cigas orders his erstwhile sweetheart imprisoned. Meanwhile, the news has spread to the furthermost ends of Lilliput. Talk of conquest fills the air. In the palace a council of war is being held. An ambassador is dispatched to the Court of the Giants. Arriving there, he is placed on a table before the throne that all may hear him. The tiny diplomat demands the immediate release of the princess. The giants laugh derisively. Back to King Micros goes the minister with his report of failure. Prince Colibri, fiancé of the princess, is appointed commander-in-chief of the Lilliput army and war is declared. Though the giants are abnormally large and exceedingly strong, the Lilliputians outnumber them four to one. The Lilliputs mass their artillery at the gates of the Giant capital and after a heavy bombardment the portals open. Through the gate rushes a horde of midgets, fire in their eyes and armed to the teeth. The giants are taken completely by surprise and though they battle valorously, the vast number of their smaller antagonists forces them to surrender. Prince Colibri marches to the prison where his sweetheart is confined. She welcomes him with open arms as soon as she is released. King Cigas, unable to bear this sight, again proposes to the princess Piccolina. The outraged dwarfs throw him in the cell the princess has just vacated and keep him there until he agrees never to molest the Lilliputians again.

A con man from the city dupes a wealthy country girl into marriage.

The story of the Titanic disaster based on the account of a survivor.

Inspector Juve is tasked to capture the infamous criminal genius Fantômas who, ruthless and particularly elusive, changes his appearance and holds Paris' high society in a crippling grasp.

A young woman holding a position as companion to an old Marchioness, won the love of her employer's son and they have been married secretly, as the young man knew that should his mother learn of his marriage to the young girl she would cut him off without a cent. Before the lady's companion had entered the services of the Marchioness she had been deeply in love with a worthy young man in her own station in life, and when the Marchioness' son supplanted this former lover in the girl's affections the jilted one's jealousy and disappointment were such that after a time he decided to let the Marchioness know of the deception her son had practiced. One fine day, therefore, he conducts the Marchioness to the farmhouse where her son's child has been put out to board and the old lady comes upon the happy pair fondling their little daughter to whom they are both devotedly attached. Of course the old lady, wild with rage, disinherits her undutiful son on the spot and decides to leave her entire fortune to the young man who has made known to her the deception of her own flesh and blood. The jilted lover therefore, fearful that she should soften and change her mind at some future time, decides to make away with her as soon as possible so as to secure the fortune. The old lady falls ill and when her little granddaughter is brought to see her she undergoes a change of heart and pardons her son for the grief he has caused her, and, unbeknown to her beneficiary, destroys her last will and leaves all to her son. The young man, seeing that the old lady's feelings have changed in her son's favor, drops a little poison in the old lady's medicine and then accuses the son of trying to poison his mother. The son is arrested and would probably have had little chance of proving his innocence had not his little daughter seen the wicked man pouring the poison in her grandmother's glass, and it is on her testimony that her father is acquitted and the real culprit punished.

After causing restaurant chaos at work, a bumbling waiter tears up the local roller rink with his skating.

Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.

Young gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from the gypsies and, along with her mother Zenda, known as "The Woman in Black," she vows revenge. Meanwhile, Crane blackmails Stella Everett's father into forcing her to marry him, even though she loves Frank Mansfield, Crane's rival for a congressional seat. Frank wins, but Stella still faces the prospect of marriage to Crane until Zenda comes to her with a plan. On their wedding day, after the vows are recited, when Crane lifts the veil from his wife's face, he is shocked to discover, that his new bride is Mary. Now Stella and Frank are free to marry, and Zenda has gained her revenge.

The scene opens with an assembly of citizens who are harangued by one of their number, whose words have great weight with the crowd, and their attitude of approval shows that Roman misrule in Jerusalem has reached its climax. Heralds now approach and Roman soldiers beat back the crowd to make way for the approach of the Roman Procurator. The scene changes to the home of Ben Hur, who is seen with his sister and mother on the house top. The cavalcade of Roman troops approaches, and to get a near view Ben Hur leans from the coping and knocks down one of the stones thereof onto the shoulder of the Procurator. This is seen and misconstrued by the Governor, who orders soldiers to arrest the inmates; they, after ineffectual pleas and struggles, are carried off. Ben Hur is consigned to the galleys, where he is loaded with chains. Here he signalizes himself by saving the life of Arrias, who publicly adopts him as his son and proclaims him a Roman citizen amidst the acclamations of the assembled crowd in the forum. Now comes the scene in the games where Ben Hur is challenged by Messala, and accepts it, to the great delight of the citizens. The chariots and athletes parade before the dais and in due time are arranged, and the chariot race commences. Three times 'round the ring dash the chariots, and at the fourth turn Ben Hur comes out the victor and is crowned with the wreath, to the great, chagrin of Messala, who is borne on a stretcher, wounded to death.

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.

Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.