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- Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.
- Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attacks. To complicate matters further, a love triangle develops, as pretty Molly must chose between Sam, a brute, and Will, the dashing captain of the other caravan. Can Will overcome the skeleton in his closet and win Molly's heart?
- Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
- Twin sisters, one good and honest and sweet, and the other given to totin' pistols and pulling robberies, keep confusing a detective about which one he his chasing for what, since he has different reasons for chasing both.
- My Old Kentucky home is the first sound cartoon ever produced and finds a dog getting ready for dinner as the story takes us into a sing-a-long with "My Old Kentucky Home".
- Pompeyo Pimpollo and Rodolfo Bambolino, two lino-type artists from El Heraldo de Madrid, want to be movie stars, so they take a test conducted by the American filmmaker E. S. Carawa. When rejected, they decide to attract attention by planning a false murder that is complicated to the point that Rodolfo is sentenced to death.
- Ko-Ko the clown and his glee club lead the audience in an early follow-the-bouncing-ball sing-along.
- The cathedral scene from Shaw's famous play.
- The Victoria Girls, appearing "in their famous dancing medley" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, sing and dance to popular songs "Diane" by Erno Rapee, "Rain" by Eugene Ford, and "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Francis Wheeler.
- Things look very bleak for Mrs. Marshall, an invalid whose ownership of a marble quarry depends on the delivery of a certain order to a cathedral. The shipment is ready and awaits only a confirmation of the order; but the awaited letter is being held by Power, a bank cashier who is determined to ruin both Mrs. Marshall and bank president Cooper by falsifying the bank's books. Cooper is jailed; his son, Charles, discovers Power's villainy and has several harrowing experiences in trying to get the marble shipment underway. In the end a tramp (The Wanderer) reveals himself to be a Secret Service agent and arrests Power. Her condition has kept Mrs. Marshall from accepting the love of Mr. Cooper, whose son loves Mrs. Marshall's daughter, Eunice; but now all are reunited, and Mrs. Marshall finds that she can walk.
- A dramatic radio play where Bransby Williams gives us his brilliant characterisation of Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge.
- Blake plays the neoclassical piece on the piano. The highest notes failed to record in this seminal experiment with synchronized sound.
- Famous actor DeWolf Hopper (Sr.) recites the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in an early sound film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Russian ballet company Le Chauve-Souris, led by Nikita Balieff, performs "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers", part of their Broadway show.
- Singer Ethel Hook, sister of classical singer Clara Butt, sings in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- A two-reel melodrama-short of a loved-crazed peasant killing the husband of his former sweetheart only to find out she wasn't all that ready to lose her husband, and she kills the killer. It may have been silent in England, its country of origin, but the actors were speaking in very pronounced British accents when the film arrived in New York.
- Actor Bransby Williams appears as the miser in an excerpt of Dickens' novel Bleak House.
- From the Minnesota backwoods, Rockuax is on the run to the North Pole after experiencing a dissonant creature open the sky. While ducking and dodging this looming static, that feels like "the end", hope remains - via voicemail.
- A husband decides to teach his wife a lesson by feigning an affair with another woman over the phone.
- Prof. Gilbert Olives and his wife Marion are in Malaya to develop an antidote for snakebite. When Prof. Olives discovers that his wife is having an affair, he plans revenge against his wife and her lover.
- Brooke Johns sings and plays ukulele and Goodee Montgomery sings and dances in this rendition of the song "I'm in Love Again" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- A scene at a train station leads to a sing-along of the title song, followed by an amusing cartoon sing-along of humorous new lyrics about spotting a "married man".
- Charles Paton performs song "If Your Face Wants to Smile, We'll Let It In" as performed in the Lyceum Theater review "John Citizen's Lament".
- British music hall star Albert George Spink (1869-1947) appears with his dog Rosie as "Dandy George and Rosie" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound- on-film process.
- Former U.S. senator Chauncey Depew, age 91, gives his recollections of President Abraham Lincoln in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process in which Capt. W. G. R. Hinchliffe (1894-1928) and Charles A. Levine (1897-1991) are interviewed at the Clapham Studios in London just before their return flight to the U.S.
- In a rare filmed record, the famed songwriters and vaudevillians perform. One of De Forest's earliest experimental sound films.
- A henpecked husband turns on his bullying wife.
- During a dinner party at the Brookfield family estate, private detective Craig Kennedy relates a story of one of his unsolved murder cases. What Kennedy knows, and the other guests do not, is that the person who was the killer in the unsolved mystery is in the room, and Kennedy makes plans to expose him.
- The highlight of the picture will be the delivery of the Gettysburg Address and the singing of a number of camp-fire songs
- Excerpt of the second act of opera "Rigoletto" with soprano Eva Leoni and company in short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, and premiered at the Rivoli Theater in New York City on 15 April 1923.