Toby the Pup organises a Halloween celebration. Some witches and elves join the party.
Eric Robinson wants to believe and experience that infinite love and warmth that near-death testimonies claim is on the other side of life. His colleague Marissa is on a crusade to alleviate the fear of death and suffering by proving that Heaven awaits everyone. In a moment of desperation, Eric faces an untimely death and discovers the reality of Hell – a place the Bible portrays – a Hell from which we must all avoid.
A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.
Beatrice De Vere (Daphne Pollard), a wealthy eccentric, owns a fabulous diamond that is coveted by others. Thusly begins a slapstick farce that involves two dumb New York cops, with cockney accents, a menacing butler who also tells fortunes, and a gorilla who drives a motorcycle and pilots an airplane.
The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.
A silent film exploring the life and times of Groover Walz, and the ultimate tragedy of the very thing that brings him joy — dance.
Peter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000 in a play and turn a profit sufficient to buy a local hotel back home. He is conned by Joe Lehman and Jack McClure into backing their play with a 49-percent stake. The play opens out-of-town in Syracuse and bombs. Lehman and McClure want out, and Jones buys them out
A 1916 short comedy starring Marcel Perez
Even though Mickey's evening started slow and lazy, things get moving in a hurry when Minnie calls from outside the big dance, wondering why he's late. Luckily his best pal Pluto is happy to help wrangle the uncooperative evening wear and help get him out the door...without the tickets
New York, 1927. An aspiring model goes to have her picture taken, but a camera can have a mind of its own.
Patsy Kelly is a baby sitter who has no end of problems dealing with the kids in her charge. When Harold and Genevieve sit down in the moonlight for some billing and cooing, Patsy comes along and explains to them that marriage equates to kids and kids equate to trouble.
In World War One France, Private Slim and Sergeant Gribbon have a love/hate relationship, but mostly hate.Both have fallen for the same girl, and Slim seemingly can't compete when Gribbon gives her fancy lingerie. Gribbon has no problem belting Slim around, and giving him extended latrine-digging duties.
Monte is a hapless bumbler in love with a police sergeant's daughter, who says no to their marrying until Monte shows he can get a responsible job with a uniform. He gets one as a ship's orderly on a Dayliner, but tells his prospective father-in-law he's the Captain. They all show up on the ship, and Monte must keep the real Captain locked up, away from his fiancée and father.
Joe Penner, in this Vitaphone short (Vitaphon production number 1124)features his stock speech impediment acts sprinkled with some left-over "doughboy" comedy from World War One. He also gets some flirting bits with dancer Joan Carter Waddell.
The first of a very short series, since it would become a TV series in 1949, based on the radio program that ran on CBS from 1944 through 1949. The premise of the program was intended as a satire and parody version of the "intellecutual" quiz shows on radio in the 40's, such as "Information Please" and "The Quiz Kids."
A dark alley, a vicious monster and a little girl that was just in the wrong place at the wrong time...
A pleasant patient
Der große Trick
Two boys, age ten, spend their summer in idyllic rural surroundings. They play in the fields, they swim au natural, and more often than not - - - they find themselves in the company of those very beings that a ten-year-old boy pretends to hate..... girls!
Po and the Furious Five uncover the legend of three of kung fu's greatest heroes: Master Thundering Rhino, Master Storming Ox, and Master Croc.