"Bobby Bumps and His Pointer Pup" is the first film in this Bray series that I've seen...and from what I can tell, Bobby is a hellishly evil child....and the cartoon was entertaining!
This installment in the series finds Bobby walking by a petshop where there's a cute doggy in the window. It's $5 so he goes to steal a piggybank to buy it. However, in the process he ends up assaulting several people, shooting a cop in the eye with a rock from a slingshot, stealing the dog and committing a variety of other crimes. Fortunately, the career of this habitual criminal is halted by the end of the film and humanity is saved!
The quality of the print of this film shocked me....as it was completely pristine...at least this can be said for the one shown on Turner Classic Movies and it was recently restored. Also, for 1916 the animation is great. Sure, the figures move jerkily and it's not up to the standards of much later cartoons but for the time it was a fabulous looking film and is quite enjoyable even today.