Mr. Meekley, a baseball fan, has a flat tire on his way to a pennant game. He remains determined to make it to the game regardless of this and further setbacks. The film's climax was shot at a pivotal game between the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The story is about a guy that enlist in the army and brings a friend - the frog "Krek". This is not liked by the sergeant, who does everything in his power to get rid of it...
A poor chap, with only fifty cents, hesitates whether to buy a meal with it or visit a fortune teller. He chooses the latter, and gazing into a crystal globe, he is told to follow the horses. He is then shown working around a racing stable, and, of course, rides the heroine's horse to victory. That night they decide to celebrate in a cabaret, where several amusing complications ensue.
Campers on a vacation have all the comforts of home fitted into their Ford car. Eggs are fried on the hot engine, and coffee is percolated in the radiator.
A 1922 comedy short.
Kipling had a prevision of this bird, when he wrote that famous line "HE'S A INDIA-RUBBER IDOT ON A SPREE!" Silent comedy short starring Clyde Cook.
When a tramp asks him some money, a cat has to struggle with his many internal consciences to come up with a decision.
A cinema becomes the site of sexual intrigue when a man looking for romance in the dark follows a woman into the movies and finds himself molesting her husband instead.
The mistress of Cunégonde is going out so Cunégonde puts on her mistress' clothes. When she goes out into the street, she encounters an instantly enamoured gentleman who takes her to his house. However, when the man is about to declare his love the actual owner of the house barges in. Cunegonde's gentleman turns out to be just a regular servant and Cunégonde walks away annoyed. When Cunégonde meets the servant the next day she is still mad at him and quarrels with him. At the police station he declares his love for her in spite of her being a maid. They happily fall into each other's arms.
From a futuristic airship, the French police stop crime, arrest criminals, and catch dogs without touching the ground. (MoMA)
A work-obsessed inventor uses a video-telephone to spy on his girlfriend, who in turn uses film to teach him a lesson. (MoMA)
Léontine cannot resist her desire to sail her new toy boat indoors. She plugs up the drains and turns on the faucets, flooding the house as water rains down through the floorboards and collapses the ceilings.
A robust housekeeper loses control of her new pet monkey, and it quickly trashes her middle-class employer’s home.
When the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive.
Over-stimulated by boxing lessons, Gavroche brings a lion home to spar with, triggering an all-out assault on public order.
Grotesque animated spirits punish a disbeliever who scorns his wife’s interest in the occult.
A magic wand falls into Calino's hands, and he turns everything he touches into running water, until he falls victim to his own witchcraft. The catastrophic meets the fantastic, for the triumph of the absurd.
Rigadin encounters nothing but trouble on Friday the 13th.
Two of the models of Toulouse Lautrec take a happy break from their posing.
Bedelia is a dirty old woman who kills all her neighbors and his son Jon hides the corpses.