Watermelon Contest

This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.

A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.

Naughty Nurses

How Dry I Am

The action takes place in a gum factory. By a peculiar accident, a bootlegger attempting to avoid the keen eye of an officer of the law, holds a bottle of liquor so that its contents drop into a vat in which the gum is being prepared. It is when the gum is finished and ready to chew that the riot starts.

What a Night!

Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.

Girls’ school hazing leads to human and animal drag. (MoMA)

Mr. Jones must go to the big city and get married in order to receive an inheritance, but his marriage-of-convenience turns into a nightmare.

A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was recycled for the studios’ 1920 release Hold Me Tight. (MoMA)

Clyde gets in hot water with his Amazon wife and her tough sailor brother, culminating in a wrestling match and escape by airplane. (MoMA)

A newly married couple looking for a house come up against a crooked real estate agent.

Comedy star Lige Conley plays a uneducated farm boy who decided to go to college.

In the grip of passionate foreplay, Zigoto and his lover are oblivious to an escalating series of interruptions and catastrophes going on around them. (MoMA)

In this early mother-in-law comedy, a bride’s mother insists on managing the private lives of the newly married couple—to the point of sleeping with them.

The incredible skills of a man with corn.

Once upon a time: a return, a town, a dead person, a family ... and a story.

Based on the 40th Annual Carnival of the Toronto Skating Club.

Old-timer Billy Slater organizes a rodeo for kids.

A teacher gives her third-grade class a "posture test". Four students--two boys and two girls--fail it. The teacher then suggests that the four become each other's "posture pals" and point out to each other when they're slouching, slumping or engaged in other such deviant non-good-posture activities.