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- Three cavemen court Miss Araminta Rockface. She favors the one who apparently slew the Missing Link ... but a dinosaur did the deed.
- Two prehistoric suitors, one a mailman, compete for the affections of a prehistoric maiden and a dinosaur.
- A caveman falls victim to a prehistoric prankster, but he is avenged by his pet chicken.
- Two cavemen invent the wheel, but when they are frustrated in their attempts to have a dinosaur pull a cart, conclude that the device is useless.
- Chris, a student, ambitious in his own way but resisting tutors, was always in trouble until, at an auction sale, he purchased an old Oriental lamp because of its odd design, not dreaming that it was possessed of magical powers which he discovered when he began polishing it. A huge slave appeared, told him the lamp was his master and that he was prepared to obey any command that its owner, Chris, might give. As a test Chris bade the slave to transform himself into another Chris. He then sent the double of himself to school, where he was made to take the thrashings intended for Chris and to serve as the butt of many jokes and experiences meant for the real Chris. When the genie finally decides that he does not relish serving as Chris' double, the real trouble and fun begins, involving Chris' father and mother, teachers, family doctor, and farcical mix-ups develop with great rapidity. The doings of "Chris and the Wonderful Lamp" in the days of the Twentieth Century rival the best of Arabian Night tales.
- T. Haviland Hicks contracts an intimate friendship with Theophilus. They are freshmen. Hicks is saturated with good humor. Theophilus' main characteristic is timidity and the least excitement makes him faint. The sophomores, indignant at Hick's abuse of the banjo, prepare to haze him. Theophilus overhears their scheme and warns Hicks. Hicks hurls a defy at the sophomores to the effect that they are welcome to haze him, but if they fail to do so, Theophilus and himself are to be secure from hazing for all time. They accept the defy and on the appointed night repair to his room wrapped up in pillow cases. Hicks smashes the drop light against the wall and the room is steeped in darkness. When a light is secured, Hicks is not to be found and the sophomores conclude that he has dived through the window. In fact, he is right among them, wrapped up in a pillow case. The duped sophomores plan to avenge themselves. Hicks gets wind of their scheme and awaits developments with absolute calm. On the fated night the sophomores drag Hicks out of bed and carry him off to their lair. They proclaim him to be the original "missing link" and urge him to do an imitation of a monkey; but he dives through a window into a tennis net held ready for the purpose by a number of freshmen. The pursuing sophomores encounter a superior number of freshmen and are roughly handled. Thereupon the sophomores post a defy, daring Hicks and his class to substitute the freshman colors for the sophomore colors, which will be found floating from the flag pole at a stated hour. Hicks dons a coat of mail, disguises Theophilus as a gorilla and succeeds in routing the sophomores and hoisting the freshman colors. Hicks becomes the most famous man at college. Moving Picture World, September 1, 1917
- This picture shows our future captains at drills and maneuvers at West Point Academy, afoot and on horse. It is surcharged with American spirit, thrilling and inspirational.
- This picture presents the most sublime of earthly spectacles. Most of the views were made shortly after the heaviest fall of snow at the canyon in recent years. Clouds form in the canyon and give to the scene an ethereal aspect. Tourists are seen descending into the canyon, some on foot and others astride burros. Passing Hermit's Rest, the party descends through the Devil's Corkscrew, a dangerous and precipitous pass in the side of the mountain. In the canyon the party rests at the river, and then returns to the starting point by way of the Bright Angel Trail.
- This is a puzzle story arranged by Sam Loyd of a billboard or rather of the evolution of a word thereon from pants to nails. On the surface there seems to be no connection between pants and nails, yet it is as easy as eating pie to make nails out of pants if you know how. The first word advertises the product of a clothing man. But he has made his reckoning without the host, or rather a number of hosts. For a florist, a furrier, a jeweler, a plumber, a dry-goods man, a carpenter, a physician, a lawyer, a mason, a ship's chandler and a hardware man happen along one after the other, and by merely pasting over one letter of the word on the billboard with a different letter, each alters the word into an advertisement of his own product. The film is ingeniously arranged so as to give the onlooker a chance to use his wits in guessing the next word on the billboard. In the end a goat comes along and eats up the poster. This goat is a puzzle in itself. Is it a real goat? Who knows?
- 1861 Kentucky is divided North v South. Seventeen-year-old Gum and Skinny like Susie. The boys join opposing armies. In the war, Gum takes Skinny to hospital. Skinny escapes to Susie's house; Gum takes him prisoner. Susie makes her choice.
- A grotesque comedy of the prehistoric age. Mannikins are used with novel effect.
- On a desolate rock, only three hundred yards square, off the southern tip of South Africa, there live almost half a million strange unusual birds, of different species with a code of unusual laws and strict observance of caste. The black cormorants, little known outside of Malagas Island. Between them and the white solan geese, a strict "color line" is drawn. In the silence of the African night and the splendor of the moon, each cormorant and each solan hies to the clan crevice in the rocks and pays a wordless graceful courtship to his mate. The strangest birds on the island, however, are the penguins. They cannot fly, but their wings help them in diving. The eggs of the penguin are a great delicacy and thousands are sent to the London market every year.
- Almond-eyed Li Chi lived in China, the daughter of the wise Mandarin Ching Ho. Ching Ho wishes his daughter to marry Chung Wang, but the maiden is true to her lover, Chang, and vows that she will marry no other. Whereat the father locks the maiden in her room over the stream. An idea comes to her. She writes a note telling her lover to come to her when the leaves begin to fall from the cherry tree, and placing it in a coconut shell, launches it upon the stream flowing beneath her window. It drifts to the feet of Chang, who, being a man of action, shakes the leaves from the cherry tree. Then he hurries to the prison of his sweetheart, rescues her and flees with her to the gardener's house. The angry father pursues them, but the gardener shelters them and aids them to escape to an island, where they live happily until the father burns the house over their heads. But the gods love the two lovers, and saving them from the fire, transform them into a pair of snowy doves.
- This historic and rare footage of Palestine focuses on the holy Christian and Jewish sites of Jerusalem.
- A Native Woman dies, and a town of men take in her orphaned daughter.
- Harry Burnhart, who has inherited the Eclipse Tool Company, leaves the running of the company to efficiency expert Carl Vibert. When Vibert gives Pop Grinell, the company's oldest employee, two weeks' notice because he is slowing down on the job, the firm's advertising manager, George Extell, appeals to Burnhart to reinstate Pop. For his efforts, George himself is dismissed. Bidding farewell to his sweetheart Muriel Clemm, George heads West where he secures a job in a competitor's tool company, soon becoming the star salesman. His success leads Burnhart to offer him complete charge of the Eclipse Tool Company, and the salesman returns triumphantly to exact revenge on Vibert by giving him "the customary two weeks." However, his conscience gets the better of him and George relents, rehires Vibert and marries Muriel.
- Newspaper clerk wants to be a detective, uses a missing finger clue to catch a murderer.
- After hearing a lecture by a war correspondent, Boy Scout Jimmy desires to be of service to his country.
- Ellen likes the courage of Jimmy, a bankrupt inventor, who fails to get any money for his experiments in making matches from his cousin Charles. First she loses her purse so that Jimmy may find it, next she loans him money in a letter purporting to be from Charles. Jimmy is advised to heat the letter over sulfur after he succeeds in his invention of a safety match. He does so, and the invisible ink turns, disclosing a love note from Ellen.
- Jonah Morpheus liked his bed so well that it was almost impossible to get him up in the morning. The schemes utilized to get him out of bed provide a laugh in every foot of this film. In the finale Jonah is for once landed at his work on time, but in a most unusual unnatural manner.
- A rare sport in countries where steep hills and much snow make this dangerous game possible.
- A scenic taken on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation.