Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.
Forklift driver Klaus returns - Now the boss has to drive. The chaos continues to take its course!!! Due to food poisoning, many workers are down in the company. After a long search for new forklift drivers, the boss himself goes as a teacher on the forklift and thus makes " the buck to the gardener ".No idea of the technology , no safety measures and in addition coke comes into play. The colleagues, girls and the daily work routine offer enough distraction and provide for bumps, accidents and funerals on the continuous line.
A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.
Innovative early 'trick' film showing the popular 'flying the foam' stunt performed on - or rather off - Brighton's West Pier.
Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts, and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of children, the children throw snowballs at the riders, and they and other persons begin to join in the fun. Then one of the carts tips on its side, spilling some of its occupants into the snow. Everyone soon decides that they enjoy playing in the snow even more than riding.
An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.
FRIEND REQUEST PENDING is a short comedy drama about the mature generation dating in our modern social networking world. It's a tale of love but more importantly life long friendship. The twelve-minute tale tells the story of Mary (Judi Dench) and Linda (Penny Ryder) who spend an afternoon discussing the pleasures, pitfalls and problems with using social networking to try and woo the local choirmaster Trevor (Philip Jackson).
Episode 5. Mowgli stood the leader of the wolf pack. It's time to settle with the main enemy of Mowgli tiger Shere Khan. In addition, the jungle comes the time of renewal, blossom and love. Mowgli feels vaguely disturbing. It's time to leave the jungle and return back to the people.
A clergyman is startled by a group of automatons.
Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions and accidents among the male population as she walks though the streets of Paris.
One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.
A young boy’s toys come to life through animation.
A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off -- even if she doesn't know about it.
Polichinelle the servant (called Harlequin in the English language version) rescues his girlfriend from a gang of decadent aristocrats, who have transformed her into a mechanical doll.
Early slapstick short from Louis Feuillade involving runaways, except that, instead of it being a runaway horse (see Griffith's THE CURTAIN POLE for an example), it is a cartful of what appear to be hundred-pound pumpkins that get away, rushing hither and yon, down sewers, up chimneys, pursued by the drayer, a couple of other people and a very unwilling donkey.
This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane old coot, he runs amok acting out his war-time heroics--smashing and throwing everything in the room!
John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the site of a ruin where he starts having hallucinations.
For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque caricatures enacted in the land of puppets. A fickle maiden gets herself into numerous embarrassing complications with her host of admirers, but the artist with lightning rapidity overcomes all obstacles and brings the maiden out victorious.
A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.
At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.