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- The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.
- When Julie De Varion's old father is imprisoned for harboring fugitive Huguenots, she goes to the authorities and begs for his freedom, declaring that he only did it out of kindness of heart. They refuse to release her father unless she locates the Catholic's greatest enemy, Ernanton De Launay, who lives in the depths of the forests and who has been vainly sought after for years. Although she knows her father would loathe such methods of release, she accepts the offer and sets off with her lady-in-waiting, Jeanette, to capture the enemy of the king by means of her womanly beauty. While stopping at an inn for the night, she is molested by a man who has been sent after her. A stranger, who is also stopping at the inn, comes to her rescue, however. The stranger offers her his protection for the rest of the journey, a kindness which she gladly accepts. He promises to take her to Ernanton De Launay, believing that she merely wishes to meet him. They continue their journey, and on the spur of the moment Julie dispatches her servant back to the officials with the statement that she has located the enemy and for them to release her father. Ernanton's servant discovers that they are being spied upon, and tells his master, who, now in love with the girl, kills him for daring to cast a reflection on the sweetest flower of womanhood he has ever met. When Julie asks him why he assaulted his servant, he truthfully tells her his reasons. Realizing that she has fallen below his estimation of her, she sends another servant after the bearer of the message in order to prevent it reaching the officials. She will not allow her womanhood to suffer even for her father's freedom. When she returns to the city, Ernanton follows her and is forced to believe that she is the spy his servant had accused her of being. She gains admittance to the officials' room and asks her father's freedom. She is refused, as the understanding was that the enemy was to stand before them, and she has failed in her quest. She will not bring the man who has won her love to them, and frankly states such as the case. Ermanton, who has been standing behind the curtain, now comes forward and tells them that they see the enemy before them, to release the aged father. Julie is distracted at the way things have turned, and becomes inconsolable. The Huguenots, who have been gaining victory after victory, now enter the city and surround the palace, demanding the release of their leader. The officials are forced to surrender, and Ermanton seeks Julie to tell her of his love and ask her to become his wife.
- 19117mNot Rated7.1 (1.8K)ShortCartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style.
- Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.
- The scenes of the action are laid in a Western dance hall. Cherokee Hall is seen dealing for the boys at the Red Light when the game is interrupted by the entrance of a surly stranger, one Boone, who has spent most of the evening imbibing in whiskey at the bar, unnoticed and alone. He loses steadily until his last dollar has passed across the table. He leaves with a threat to return with a six-shooter working overtime. That night he returns and is shot dead as he enters the door of the saloon. Cherokee is the only person around. He cares for the body and rides away into the night. A posse is sent in search of Cherokee, who is also accused of robbing the stage. The posse apprehends the real murderer and hold-up man. Cherokee arrives on the scene and explains that he has been at Boone's cabin, protecting his daughter, Nell.
- A reel of mirth-provoking stunts that will draw the pennies from the children, but which is of much interest to young and old alike. It opens with a crowd of children leaving school and marching through the streets to the "Humpty Dumpty Circus." We see them crowd into the tent and at the end of each act they vociferously applaud the performers These are the little wooden toys that are familiar to all, and which are made to perform all the usual acrobatic stunts of the circus performer in a remarkably realistic manner. Some of the scenes are really comical and it is hard to believe that the elephants and donkeys are not alive.
- An account of the life of Jesus Christ according to the New Testament, told as a series of tableaus interspersed with Bible verses.
- A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.
- On a dark and stormy night, a traveler takes a room at a spooky hotel in the forest. As soon as the proprietor leaves, the room comes alive with ghosts and poltergeists who torment the man as he tries to unpack, eat, and go to sleep.
- A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get it back.
- Bill and Jim, brothers, live a lonely life in the mountains. Jim makes a trip to town. He becomes infatuated with Nan, the daughter of the general storekeeper, Pete, one of the rough-necks of the town, thinks she belongs to him. When he sees Jim paying attention to her, he shows his displeasure and declares his intention of putting a stop to his interference. Brother Bill becomes anxious when Jim does not return. Bill learns the situation of affairs and he asks Nan not to jolly Jim any further. In reply, he receives a slap in the face. There is a dance on at the Hall that night, and Jim has a date to take Nan. Pete is furious and follows them. Bill gets to the dance hall in time to shoot out the lights and prevent Pete from getting a bead with his gun on Jim. The dancers are thrown into confusion in the darkness. Bill makes up his mind to teach Nan a lesson for trifling with Jim. He seizes her around the waist and carries her outside. Jumping on his horse with Nan in his arms, he makes off to his cabin. He tells her she can go back home if she promises never to interfere with Jim again. She threatens to kill him. He tells her to help herself. His gun is at her disposal. She takes it, but when she sees the fearlessness of Bill, she hands him back his gun. Her heart is touched by his love for his brother and his general manliness, offers him her hand, and tells him that she could love a man like him. Bill places his arm around her waist, saying, "And I could love a girl like you." Nan's father, after Bill has run away with Nan, forms a posse and goes in pursuit. Jim joins them and is in the lead. From a distance, he sees Nan and Bill at the door of the cabin, clasped in each other's arms. He surmises what it all means and returns to the pursuers and tells them that there is no use in going farther as their quarry has fled in another direction.
- Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The invasion comes, and New York, Washington, and other American cities are devastated.
- A rich libertine leaves all his money to a college girl who had refused his advances. The ensuing scandal makes her retire to a small town, where she meets the dead man's son.
- Peter Blood, a young Irish physician, treats a rebel soldier wounded in battle, and he is arrested, tried for treason and sent into slavery to Barbados. He and his friend Jeremy are bought by the vicious Col. Bishop, who purchases them for his niece Arabella. Blood rallies the other slaves to rebel against their slavery; they escape and take over a Spanish galleon. Blood and his crew become pirates and the scourge of the Caribbean. England, at war with France and losing, offers him a commission in the Royal Navy if he will fight for them. Blood, who has no love for the French but even less for the English, has to decide whether it's better for he and his men to fight with the English or against them.
- Scene 1. The Prophecy: Josephine, while walking in the gardens on the island of Martinique, is told that "she will be more than Queen and yet outlive her dignity." Scene 2. Napoleon Meets Josephine at Madam Talien's Saloon and Falls in Love with Her: Josephine, with other ladies, is seated as Napoleon enters and is introduced. It is a case of love at first sight. As Napoleon makes ardent love to Josephine, the others thoughtfully withdraw. Scene 3. Napoleon's Departure to Take Command of the Army of Italy Three Days After His Marriage to Josephine: Napoleon bids good-bye to Josephine, mounts his horse and rides away, his staff and the troops following. Scene 4. Napoleon Having Been Crowned Emperor of France, Longs for a Son to Perpetuate His Name and Contemplates Divorce From Josephine: Napoleon enters the throne room, walks restlessly up and down and at last calls his valet, whom he directs to summon Josephine. She enters with her attendants. Napoleon dismisses the ladies, tells Josephine that he must have a son. She, having expected this, is resigned and turns away in a swoon. Scene 5. The Public Proclamation of Divorce Between Napoleon and Josephine in the Grand Salon of the Tuileries: The members of Napoleon's family and the Imperial Council of State are assembled as Josephine enters, signs the paper and leaves the room. Scene 6. The Parting of Napoleon and Josephine After the Divorce: In his bed chamber Napoleon is discovered in great grief, his valet endeavoring to calm him. The door opens and Josephine enters. After a pathetic farewell, she staggers from the room. Scene 7. Josephine at Malmaison After the Divorce: Memories of Napoleon. Josephine, seated on a chair, sees a vision of Napoleon. She crosses to the mantel, caresses a bust, sits down and plays the harp. As the vision vanishes, she stretches out her arm in despair and falls to the ground.
- Larry Semons is sent to collect unpaid rent in a rough neighborhood where "Babe" Hardy as the local boss won't give up easily.
- The persecution of the children of Israel by the Egyptians. Now there arose up a new king in Egypt. And he said unto his people. Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Let us set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. (Exodus, chapter I.) The first scenes show the Egyptian court and King Pharaoh commanding the slave drivers to beat the Hebrew toilers who show signs of rebellion. Pharaoh notices this and, calling his scribes, orders that a decree be published that every man-child born to the Hebrews be killed. The parchment is prepared and is read in Pharaohs court in the presence of Pharaohs daughter, who hears and pleads in vain for his clemency. Pharaohs Decree: Every male child that is born to the Hebrews shall be cast into the river. The Egyptians ruthlessly proceed to carry out the decree and seize the male children from the arms of the Hebrew mothers. Here we are shown the interior of a Hebrew dwelling. The child Moses is in a cradle and his mother is bending over him, utterly unconscious of the cruel edict of King Pharaoh. The sister of Moses is shown attending to household duties and she takes a pitcher and goes to the well to draw water. There she learns of the slaughter of the innocents and hastens back and tells the mother of the cruel scenes she has witnessed. They decide to hide the child Moses by the river, and the cradle or ark is covered and carried between them to a marsh, where they plaster the outside with soft mud to keep out the water, and placing the child therein, his sister remains nearby to watch what will become of him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the rivers edge; and when she saw the ark among the flags she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it she saw the child; and, behold, the babe wept, and she had compassion on him. Pharaohs daughter fondles and pets the crying child and decides that she will keep him for her own. The sister of Moses approaches and suggests that she call a nurse of the Hebrew women and she, of course, called the childs mother. And Pharaohs daughter said unto her, Take this child away and nurse it for me and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it. Pharaoh is informed of his daughters caprice and demands to see the child. He orders it away, but his daughter embraces him and pleads so hard for the life of the child that he consents and gives it his protection and blessing. A fitting ending is a picture of the mother and sister of Moses again fondling their own and giving thanks to God for their unexpected good fortune. The first reel of this series ended with the child Moses being adopted by Pharaohs daughter. The Hebrews are still under bondage, and we see them laboring in the brick fields, beaten by the taskmasters, as they build those gigantic specimens of Egyptian architecture, many of which stand to this day. Moses has been reared and educated in the Egyptian court, and is now in the prime of life, but he does not forget that he is of Hebrew blood, and, as he watches his brethren in their slavery, his blood boils at the outrages and he looks toward Heaven and cries, How long, oh Lord, how long? A number of Hebrews are digging clay, which is filled into baskets. The load is too heavy for one of the laborers, and the taskmaster beats him unmercifully. Moses sees this and kills the taskmaster. T The other Hebrew slaves, horrified at the enormity of the act, run away, and Moses, afraid of the consequences, hastily buries the body in the clay pit. Two days after this, Moses seeks to separate two of his brethren who are quarreling, and one of them says: Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian? Moses is terrified when he knows that his crime is known, and decides to flee from the country. He seeks refuge in the home of a Hebrew laborer and bargains for a suit of the laborers garments, with which he disguises himself; he also purchases provisions and a water bottle, and departs. Moses is seen crossing the desert. Tired and dusty, he rests and drinks from his water flask. Still toiling on through the arid desert, he reaches an eminence and looks hack to see if he is being followed, and, seeing no one, he gives thanks for his deliverance. Moses has at last reached the land of Midian. He discovers a well and refreshes and rests himself. While he is resting seven daughters of Jethro, a Midianite, come to the well to draw water for their sheep and cattle. Other herdsmen also come to the well and ungallantly drive away the maidens, but Moses comes to their aid, and draws the water for them. The home of Jethro, the priest of Midian, father of the seven maidens. They enter and tell of the encounter at the well, and how they were aided by a Hebrew traveler. He says the man must be his guest, and hastens to the well and greets Moses and invites him to the shelter of his house, which offer is accepted. Moses enters the home of the priest of Midian, where he is effusively greeted by the whole household, and we see him seated and enjoying a meal with the family. (And Moses was content to dwell with the manand he gave Moses his daughter, Zipporah, to wife.) (Forty years later). Moses is now a shepherd, and, while tending his flocks in the land of Midian. The voice of God speaks to him out of a burning bush and commands him to return to Egypt and deliver his brethren out of the bondage of the Egyptians. Moses bids farewell to Jethro, his father-in-law, and, with his family, journeys to Egypt. On the way he meets Aaron, who had been, commanded by the Lord to meet Moses, and together they arrive at the Egyptian court. The court of Pharaoh, a young man, the elder Pharaoh having died while Moses was in Midian. The officials announce the new arrivals, and Moses and Aaron are ushered in and demand, in the name of the Lord, that the Children of Israel be set free. The Egyptian king refuses, and Moses tells him that if he does not consent the wrath of God will come on all the Egyptians. Moses prays to the Lord for advice, and is commanded to work a miracle before the Egyptian monarch to convince him that it is the Lord, the God of the Israelites, who demands the deliverance of His people. Moses and Aaron appear before Pharaoh again. Aaron casts his rod upon the ground and it becomes a serpent. Pharaoh is amazed, but he still refuses to free the Children of Israel. Pharaohs continued refusal brings upon Egypt the ten plagues. Moses finds Pharaoh near the rivers edge and again asks that his people be allowed to go free. When Pharaoh denies again. Aaron smites the water of the river with his rod and the waters are turned into blood. Again Moses appears before Pharaoh and again Pharaoh refuses his request. As God had commanded, Moses stretches his hand toward heaven and immediately a great storm of hail and lightning, such as they had never seen, descends on Egypt, killing man and beast and striking terror to the heart of Pharaoh. Pharaohs heart was again hardened and he still refuses to free the Hebrew children. Again Moses stretches his hand toward heaven, and a thick darkness, a darkness that might be felt, covered the land for three days, so that no one was able to rise from his place. The last and most terrible plague visited on Egypt for Pharaohs continued refusal is the death of all the Egyptian first born. The Feast of the Passover is instituted at this time. Moses directing all the Hebrew people to observe the Feast by killing and preparing a lamb. Moses commands the Children of Israel to sprinkle the door posts on both sides and on top with the blood of the lamb and on every house where they are to eat the Feast of the Passover, and to prepare the Feast. The Feast of the Passover is observed, according to the instructions of Moses, by every Jewish family in Egypt, the Feast consisting of roast lamb with unleavened bread and herbs. The same night that the Feast of the Passover is being observed by the Israelites, the Angel of Death passes over the land of Egypt in the last plague, the death of the first born. The Angel of Death enters every Egyptian home where there is no blood on the doorposts, and the first born of every Egyptian family is slain, from the first born in Pharaohs household to the first born of the captive in the dungeons. The Angel of Death, however, passes by every Jewish home, as God had promised to Moses that where He saw the blood on the doorposts He would pass them over and the plague should not be upon them. In Pharaohs palace Pharaoh and his court are feasting, when the Angel of Death enters and Pharaohs own first born is slain. Pharaoh is overcome with grief at this terrible visitation and sends for Moses and Aaron immediately. The death of his first born softens the heart of Pharaoh and when Moses and Aaron now appear before him he commands them to take the Children of Israel and to depart out of the land of Egypt. Moses and Aaron give the command to the Hebrew people, who immediately gather together their possessions and prepare to leave the land of their bondage with reverent and thankful hearts. With Moses and Aaron as leaders, the Israelites begin their exodus from Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs, where they had been slaves for so many years.
- A political boss named Sledge meets a wealthy opponent's daughter, Molly Marley. Sledge determines to win Molly although she is engaged to Bert Glider, a lounge lizard intending to exploit Molly for her money. Unable to convince Molly of Glider's nefarious motives, Sledge kidnaps her on her wedding day and contrives to make it appear that Mr. Marley has lost all of his investments. Glider cancels his marriage plans; Sledge returns Marley's money to him and marries Molly.
- Towers Chandler saves a little out of his weekly pay from an architect's office and uses it to have a night on the town every few weeks. On one outing he meets a shop girl. When he boasts of his yachts and polo ponies she disdains his lack of a worthy purpose in life. The shop girl, though, is in reality the daughter of a tycoon. Her father decides to build a country house and employs the firm where Towers works. He brings the architectural plans to the tycoon's house and when the girl sees him meaningfully employed she realizes his does have a purpose in life.
- A young woman discovers a seed that can make women act like men and men act like women. She decides to take one, then slips one to her maid and another to her fiancé. The fun begins.
- Decorated by the Legion of Honor for his services in the Imperial Guard, under the Emperor Napoleon, on the burning sands of Africa and the snows of Russia. Havresac, one of the Old Guard, in his second childhood, lives on the memories of his past. His niece, Melanie, works as a maker of artificial flowers and manages to keep a meager home over their heads. Two French officers, Colonel Weston and Colonel Millard, learning of their poverty and the past history of the old soldier, call at their home and provide for their needs. Colonel Weston falls in love with Melanie and asks her uncle's consent to their marriage. At first Havresac refuses, but later, he places Weston's hand in hers and gives them his blessing. Just after this has occurred, the old man hears the playing of the band of a passing regiment, and looking from the window. Insists upon taking his musket and joining the march. He is restrained by the Colonel and Melanie from leaving the room, but to satisfy the spark of his old-time valor, they allow him to stand in front of the window with his musket at "shoulder-arms." He becomes so inspired it is too much for his waning strength and he falls into his old arm-chair and passes through the last great battle of life into the presence of the Great Commander of those who have fought the fight and passed into the great beyond.
- A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.
- On the porch of a line-looking house a mother is kissing her daughter good-bye as the little one departs for school. A young man in ragged clothes, a tramp, but not rough looking, comes up and asks for something to eat. The mother refuses him haughtily and sharply. The little girl looks pityingly at him and intercedes. The father now comes out, the tramp appeals to him, but is sternly ordered away. He walks wearily along and a few moments later the child runs up behind, takes part of her lunch and offers it to him. He refuses at first, the child insists and finally he takes a sandwich, which he devours ravenously. They separate, each going in opposite directions, the tramp glancing back gratefully. Further along the road, on her way to school, the little girl is intercepted by another tramp, a villainous fellow, who, seeing that no one is in sight, grabs the child, and puts her into an empty sack he is carrying. Presently he is met by the first tramp of our story, who glances curiously at the bag. A sound reaches his ears and he asks his fellow-tramp what the sack contains. He is promptly told to mind his business. Another sound comes from the bag and the younger man, satisfied that something is wrong, knocks the abductor down, opens the bag and finds inside the little girl who befriended him that morning. The other tramp regains consciousness, attacks the rescuer, and wounds him, but is finally bested. The child and her tramp hero now proceed on their way. At the little girl's home her mother and father are anxious and worried at her failure to return from school. As hour after hour passes the parents become frantic. The father puts on his coat and is just going out in search for his little girl when the door opens and the missing girl rushes into her mother's arms. She relates her experiences and calls her rescuer into the room. He is immediately recognized as the beggar of that morning, the mother falls on her knees, thanks and blesses him; the father shakes him warmly by the hand, and both ask forgiveness for their unkindness of the morning.
- Poor Bessie MacGregor is struck by the automobile of wealthy Mrs. Templeton Orrin and is taken home to live with her. But Bessie leaves when Mrs. Orrin's brother, J. Warburton Ashe, trifles with her love. Thief Tony Pantelli befriends her in the tenement where she finds a room, tries to obtain money for her care from Ashe, and, failing, steals a goblet that Ashe has brought home from England, thinking it may be the Holy Grail. The goblet, which gives off a glow and is reputed to have healing powers, is recovered, stolen again, again recovered and stolen, and finally lost in a river. Meanwhile, Ashe exonerates Tony in night court, realizes he really loves Bessie, now cured, and is reunited with her.
- After the sinking of the Lusitania, American James Garrison "Garry" Owen joins the British army and fights gallantly until he is wounded and subsequently discharged. Recuperating in New York, he meets and falls in love with Helen Lloyd, and the two plan to be married after his return from active duty with the American forces in France. Helen's brother Albert, fighting in France under Garry's command, panics and deserts his post, and Garry is forced to report him. At the court-martial, Albert is sentenced to death, but when Company D is attacked, his heroic actions save the day and he dies a hero. Meanwhile, Helen is abducted by German officer Friederich von Emden, whose submarine transports her to his headquarters: Madame Arnot's chateau in Belgium. Von Emden captures Garry and orders him to attend a banquet celebrating the German's forced marriage to Helen, but an old servant named Sonia poisons most of the German guests. Garry kills von Emden, then escapes with Helen to the Allied lines.
- Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.
- A young girl is being urged by her father to marry a Duke. She refuses and leaves the room, closely followed by the Duke who remains unseen. She enters the garden, where she meets her lover. The couple plight their troth. The young man gives his sweetheart a ring in token, then hastily departs. The girl, turning, meets the Duke face to face. He follows her to the house, tells her father of the scene he has witnessed. The old man angrily orders his daughter from the room, then with the Duke concocts a plan to cure the girl's love. They dispatch a note, signing the lover's name, making an appointment for that evening. She unsuspectingly goes to the spot designated, waits anxiously for her lover, and when he does not appear, returns home, convinced that he is false. Another forged note but adds to her grief, and when the Duke again presses his suit the girl reluctantly consents. In due time the wedding takes place and as the bride signs the marriage contract, her former lover enters and demands an explanation. The girl tells of the letters. He angrily asks for the betrothal ring, throws it to the ground, grinds it beneath his feet, bitterly curses her and her family, then leaves. The young girl realizing the deception practiced upon her, shows signs of madness. Her father, entering with the Duke, becomes alarmed at her condition. The latter is frightened at her wild appearance, and as he approaches she stabs him before her father can intercede. She kisses the picture of her lover, walks among the guests still carrying the dagger. During this time the lover in his room is bemoaning his fate, when the fearful news is brought to him. He hastens to the castle and pleads with his sweetheart, trying to bring back her wandering senses. She gazes at him wildly at first, then gradually her memory returns. The forged letters arc again brought out and when the lover denies having written them, the knowledge that he still loves her and the fact that she has been cruelly deceived, drives her again to madness and she dies in her lover's arms.
- In order to arouse the jealousy of Philip Steele, a wealthy young man who is infatuated with her, Isobel Becker introduces her father to him as her husband. Steele is bitterly disappointed and before Isobel can explain her little joke, he leaves and joins the Northwest Mounted Police, in which he soon distinguishes himself. He is assigned to bring in Bucky Nome, a notorious gambler and lecher who is wanted for murder. Colonel Becker, Isobel's wealthy father, is interested in the fur business and goes to Canada, taking her with him. Bucky wrecks the pleasure train on which they are riding and kidnaps Isobel. Steele eventually catches up with Bucky, bringing him to justice and rescuing Isobel. The subdued girl explains her joke, and Steele resigns from the force, again taking his place in polite society.
- Mike Callahan has but one collar, and that soiled, to attend the annual outing of the Bricklayers' Union with, so he sends it to Wing Lee, the Chinaman's, to have it done up in a rush. The boy loses the very important half-ticket; consequently when Mike calls for his collar he is told with many gestures, No tickee, no washee. Mike gets mad and gives battle to the Chinks, but they are too many for him and he has to run for his life, pursued by the whole crowd of Chinamen. An exciting chase follows, and the police force are dragged from their various pursuits of fishing, sleeping and guiding schooners over the bar to join in the chase, and they finally succeed in corralling the pursuers and the pursued. All march back to the laundry, where Mike, escorted by the police, searches until he finds his collar, just in time to join the Local Union in the parade.
- Outside Cleopatra's palace a youth and maiden are observed. They are evidently very much in love with each other. While conversing, the gates open, Cleopatra and Mark Antony come forth, accompanied by soldiers, dancing girls. Etc. He bids farewell to Cleopatra and, accompanied by a bodyguard, starts on his journey. The youth takes no further notice of his sweetheart, but gazes fascinated at Cleopatra, who, after waving farewell to Antony, re-enters the palace. The youth continues to gaze after Cleopatra, pushes his affianced aside, falls to his knees and kisses the step where Cleopatra stood. He then goes into the grounds, underneath her bedchamber, writes on a scroll of his ardent love, wraps the paper around his arrow and shoots it through the window. Inside the chamber Cleopatra and her servants are startled, take the arrow and read the note. Looking outside, nobody can be seen. Shortly afterward Cleopatra goes outside to the bathing pool, poises on the brink, when, looking toward a clump of bushes, she spies the lovesick youth. He is brought out and Cleopatra imperiously demands what his presence means. He is not abashed, but kneels and tells of his love. Cleopatra orders her attendants away, takes the youth and leads him off. When alone he again reiterates his love. Cleopatra orders her servants to bring wine, fruit, perfumes, etc. Dancing girls appear, execute a few manoeuvres, then leave. Cleopatra then rises and dances before the youth. A servant enters, delivers a message to the mistress, then departs. Cleopatra hands a goblet to the young man, who drinks its contents, then falls dead. Cleopatra bows over his body a moment, then springs up and sits on the throne as Mark Antony comes down the steps. He salutes and embraces Cleopatra, observes the corpse and demands an explanation. Cleopatra carelessly replies: "Just another slave l was experimenting on with poison."
- A young girl is reared on a desert island by natives and led to believe that she is a goddess. One day an outsider comes to the island, and persuades her to accompany him to preach about the kindness and love she has experienced. She agrees, but she's soon confronted by the problems and travails of the "outside" world.
- An inventor, David Hammond is the son of a ship's captain. He leaves his sweetheart, Lisbeth Bixler, and goes to the city to promote his invention. Lisbeth's father, an unsuccessful artist, deserts his family, secretly intending to commit suicide. When he fails to return, "Cap" Hammond protects Bixler's wife and children. David forgets Lisbeth until he returns to perfect his invention and finds that she still loves him. During a fire caused by a flooding of a nearby river, Lisbeth rescues David; and both are picked up by "Cap" Hammond, who has saved the whole village. Bixler returns, his courage renewed, and all are happily reunited.
- Having lost his wealth, James Arnold, an aged aristocrat, applies to Philip Berkow, a wealthy mine owner, of the middle class socially, for a loan. Berkow proposes that they make a matrimonial alliance between Arnold's daughter, Eugenie, and Berkow's son, Arthur, one having the wealth and the other the social prestige. Anxious to maintain her own social standing, Eugenie reluctantly agrees, while Arthur, who loves the girl, also consents. The miners are on the point of an uprising in protest against certain conditions at the mine. They hold up the bridal party, but are dispersed by Hartmann, who is against violence. The wedding guests gather for the banquet, the elder Berkow lifts his glass to drink to the health of the bride and falls dead of heart failure. A delegation of miners, headed by Hartmann, call upon Arthur and insist upon their demands. Arthur defies them. Meanwhile, Eugenie's father has received an unexpected legacy and persuades Eugenie to leave her husband. She goes to his office and sees the situation between her husband and the angry miners, which brings to her her first realization of real respect for Arthur's manliness. She tells him of her intentions of leaving him. He listens to her calmly and tells her she can go. The miners plan to blow up the mine. They place the powder and are about to return, when part of the tunnel caves in. Arthur rushes to the mine and goes down the shaft alone to rescue the man. Eugenie rushes to the mine as the rescued miners are drawn up, announcing that all are saved except Arthur. Eugenie pleads for them to rescue her husband; all refuse. She starts down alone. Hartmann springs into the bucket with her. They find Arthur and bring him safely up, amid the cheers of the crowd. The explosion comes as Eugenie and Arthur stand apart, and, looking into each other's eyes, realize that their love is mutual.
- A one-armed man obtains an artificial limb which he cannot control.
- Love! What a wonderful thing is love. Cupid is a specialist in aching hearts and for sick men and maidens. Alice Linton falls in love with Percy Primrose, a young poet. Papa Linton says, "Cut out the poetry and keep the muse out of the family." He will not father-in-law a sentimental versifier. Alice is deeply smitten with Percy and she cannot be comforted, falls into a decline and looks very ill. Her father is anxious about her and hastens to see the family physician. Percy consults the doctor in advance of the father, however, and tells him all about Alice's trouble and his love for her. The old doctor is a friend of the young people and arranges to help them. When the father calls, the doctor feigns sickness and sends Percy, disguised as "Doctor Cupid," to attend the young lady's case. Dr. Cupid comes to see Alice and after making himself known she immediately begins to improve. "Marvelous!" cries her father. Dr. Cupid calls the next day and Mr. Linton notices the doctor and his daughter are very fond of each other. The climax comes when Dr. Cupid asks Mr. Linton for his daughter and gains his consent to their marriage, then removes his wig and reveals himself, Percy Primrose, the poet. The deed is done, papa cannot go back on his word and Percy wins Alice as his inspiration and poetry of life.
- A drowsy pipe-smoker attempts to nap, only to be tormented relentlessly by the mischievous Princess Nicotine and her fairy companion.
- A hungry mosquito spots and follows a man on his way home. The mosquito slips into the room where the man is sleeping, and gets ready for a meal. His first attempts startle the man and wake him up, but the mosquito is very persistent.
- Harvey Fiske, with an inherent streak of cowardice, is a newcomer at Childs' ranch. He introduces himself to Mr. Childs, his niece Anne, and Tom Beckett. Tom bears a silent love for Anne; she admires young Fiske. Harvey asks her to marry him and gains her uncle's consent. After their wedding, the Mexican who threatened Fiske returns and demands the loan of $50 from; he grants it, plainly showing that he is afraid to refuse. When the "Greaser" threatens him again, Anne defies him and drives him from the house. Fiske's fellow citizens elect him sheriff and he's told that a bandit is lurking in the vicinity and he must arrest him at once. Seized with fear, Fiske refuses to go. Anne's suppressed feeling of contempt arouses her to a determination to hide her husband's "yellow streak" by going after the bandit herself. She runs him down, they exchange shots, and she kills him and makes her husband take the dead man to town and claim that he captured the bandit himself. His friends and neighbors are proud of him. In a state of collapse, Anne watches from her home the honor which she brought to her husband, rather than have a blot upon her family's escutcheon.
- Great excitement is caused at the Hicksville post office and general store when a letter arrives addressed to Miss Abigail Pecksniff, the village old maid. When she comes in later for groceries, the postmaster hands her the letter, to her surprise. She opens it and finds that it is from a lawyer informing her that her old uncle has left her his entire fortune; a check is enclosed. The postmaster and one of the loungers read the letter over her shoulder and communicate the intelligence to the others present as soon as she leaves. When she is well out of the way, the men eagerly discuss the matter and wonder what she will do with her newly-acquired wealth. The same idea seems to occur to all of them and they leave the store for their homes, where each of them dolls himself up, intending to visit Miss Abigail and offer her his hand and heart. Each of the men takes a present. Each of the four men receives a surprise when he finds the others at the old maid's cottage. Miss Abigail ushers them all into her sitting-room and upbraids them for trying to get her money. A feeling of relief succeeds the sensation of chagrin when she shows them the check that had accompanied her letter. After all expenses have been paid, her old uncle's estate amounts to just $1.
- Larry's the dupe in the school classroom when all the hi jinx are blamed on him. When he falls asleep and dreams his pals are grown up and working on a farm, he doesn't make out much better.
- Because of his close resemblance to his mother, who years earlier had left his father for another man, Patrick Yardley is shunned and finally disinherited. Yardley, Sr., prefers his young nephew, Vincent Tessier, who has ingratiated himself to the old man, and has been bequeathed his entire estate. Learning that Patrick is penniless, the mother of his sweetheart, Celia Graham, urges her daughter to abandon him in favor of Vincent. Having lost everything, Patrick leaves England, but in his absence, his father discovers that Vincent, masquerading as Patrick, has betrayed a young woman. Remorsefully, Yardley prepares a new will, but because he dies before presenting it to his lawyer, everything is left to Vincent. Later, however, a friend discovers the final will, and Vincent is ousted from the estate and later killed by Maxton, Patrick's valet. Finally, Celia, who loved Patrick all along, joins him.
- At the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, the six sons of widow Beecham enlist. The seventh son is very anxious to join the army and fight for his country, but his brothers insist upon his remaining home with his mother. At the "Battle of Bull Run" three of the brothers are killed. The seventh son, fired with patriotism, goes to the front, leaving his old mother alone. He distinguishes himself for bravery, saving his colonel's life during the "Battle of the Wilderness" at which three more of the widow's sons are killed. The youngest boy, his nerves shattered, flees in terror. He is brought up on charges of desertion and sentenced to death. Secretary of War Stanton receives an appeal from the boy's mother, but refuses to recommend his pardon. The widowed mother calls on the President personally. She is granted an interview. Lincoln listens with the tender sympathy for which he was noted. The bereaved mother unbosoms her overburdened soul and tells him of the six graves filled with the bodies of her sons, who fought and died for their country. With tears, she pleads for her last and only boy, the hope and love of her old age. The old lady anxiously awaits his decision and is about to leave his presence when the President calls her back and hands her her boy's pardon, saying: "You have given six sons for your country and I am going to give you the seventh."
- The Charnocks, a wealthy landowner family from Virginia, take their yacht on a cruise to the South Pacific. The yacht catches fire near a desert island, and while John Sr. dies in the fire, his wife and son make it to the island, where she soon dies. Twenty years later Katherine Brenton, a wealthy young woman, is on a yacht trip in the South Pacific with playboy Valentine Langford, testing her theory that men and women can have platonic relationships under any conditions. When Langford makes a pass at her she knocks him out and flees the yacht for a nearby desert island--which happens to be the same one that young John Charnock was stranded on 20 years earlier. They soon find each other. Complications--and an earthquake--ensue.
- Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventures of the humans who surround the horse.
- A series of 12 2-reel episodes, each a separate and unrelated story, relating the adventures of Christopher Race and his high-powered automobile, The Scarlet Runner. Each episode has a different cast, except for the continuing role of Earle Williams. Episode titles are: #1: The Car and His Majesty (1916); #2: The Nuremberg Watch (1916); #3: The Masked Ball (1916); #4: The Hidden Prince (1916); #5: The Jacobean House (1916); #6: The Mysterious Motor Car (1916); #7: The Red Whiskered Man (1916); #8: The Glove and the Ring (1916); #9: The Gold Cigarette Case (1916); #10: The Lost Girl (1916); #11: The Missing Chapter (1916); #12: The Car and the Girl (1916).
- The millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.
- Diantha Ebberly travels with her parents to the edge of the Sahara to meet her longtime betrothed, Herbert Medford, whom she has never seen. She is rescued from a swarm of beggars by an "Arab," then meets him again when she slips out at night in native dress. They fall in love, but Diantha is abducted by Sheik Amud, then returned safely home by the "Arab." The next morning Diantha discovers her fiancé and lover to be one and the same.
- A welcome guest of the French aristocracy, Monsieur Picard having been awarded the Croix De Guerre, is also a master thief who baffles the Parisian police. One night, while Picard watches an Apache dance, he learns that one of his three adopted children is seriously ill. When his car breaks down, Picard politely forces Helen Deprenay to loan him her auto, and leaves his cross as security. The next day, the police pursue Picard to the Deprenay home where the prefect warns Helen about Picard. Helen writes to the entreating Picard, and refuses to see him until he proves himself of worth to society. Disguised as Scotland Yard agent Armand DuBois, Picard is present at the Deprenay home when a necklace is stolen. After Helen covers for him, Picard catches the thief in an attempt to swindle the entire community in a stock market scheme. He informs the police that Picard no longer exists, and escapes with Helen to a new life.
- Far out in the breakers stands the old light house, its beacon kept burning by its faithful old guardian assisted by his beautiful daughter, Nan. The old sentinel of the sea is a picturesque old structure and attracts the attention of a young artist named Philip, who secures lodgings with the old man with permission to paint a picture of the attractive scene. The next morning while busily engaged at his easel, Philip sees Nan approaching, her beauty intensified by the radiant sunlight. He asks her to allow him to paint her portrait; she consents, and he at once starts his pleasurable task. During the progress of the work he falls in love with Nan, and each day she grows fonder of him. He has very nearly completed the painting when he is suddenly called away by a telegram stating that his mother is dying. He bids Nan farewell, saying he will return and finish her portrait as soon as possible. During his absence he is stricken with fever. She does not hear from him for some time. She anxiously awaits a letter, which reaches her while sitting in the dory that serves as a communication between the lighthouse and the main shore. While reading the letter, the boat is unfastened from its moorings and drifts out to sea. Her father hears her cries for help; he is so feeble he is unable to reach her and he tries to throw her the oars which are lying on the shore, hoping they may float towards her. The boat with its precious burden keeps drifting farther and farther away until it is lost sight of. The old lighthouse keeper is agonized and tries to make his way to the tower to start the lights, while an approaching storm adds to his fears. He drops dead. Philip returns, learns what has happened and while sitting in the twilight dreaming of Nan, her vision appears and directs him to guard the light. He obeys, and safety for the incoming vessels is assured. Obsessed by the associations of the place and lured by the vision of the beautiful girl whom he loves with an undying affection, he becomes the lighthouse attendant and grows old in the service, faithful to the last, until he is called by "The Spirit of the Light" to join in the realms of the eternal light of Heaven.