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- The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof".
- An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
- A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison.
- This is a clever comedy production in several scenes. In the opening scene the hired man is complaining to Farmer Jones that the woodpile is being depleted by thieves. Farmer Jones decides to adopt drastic measures and loads one of the sticks with dynamite. In the next scene a colored deacon, one of the shining lights in the African Church, is seen making away with the wood. The next scene shows the home of the deacon, where he is taking his comfort at the kitchen fire, while his wife is busy with the washing. The loaded stick is, of course, put into the fire, and there is a terrific explosion and the building is ruined. Farmer Jones and his man appear at the critical moment and the colored thieves are given a punishment they will not soon forget.
- While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
- A female crook is dragged in by two policeman to be photographed. The camera dollies in to show her making faces.
- In this picture there is a limited amount of action in the pose. As the curtains are drawn aside the shell appears shut. It gradually opens, disclosing the model curled up in a recumbent position. She slowly arises as if awakening, and gracefully assumes the final position of the pose.
- Clive Herbert, the Duke of Cheshire's younger brother, about to leave England to relieve his boredom, falls in love with Helena, the unhappy Duchess of Harwich, who was forced to marry a corrupt duke to save her father's name, but the rogue treats her cruelly. Although she loves Clive, Helena will not leave with him because she does not want to sully this love. When Harwich returns from France, where he was treated for paralysis brought on while forcing his attentions on Helena, he maliciously taunts Helena and Clive. After Clive's brother dies, Clive becomes a duke and a member of the House of Lords and nearly marries American heiress Cornelia Kirby so he can keep up the family estate. Harwich dies without leaving Helena anything, but after Cornelia's Chicago sweetheart Howard McClintock takes her back and Clive becomes the Ambassador to the U.S., he marries Helena.
- A high board fence is shown covered with theatrical posters. The one in the center shows the head and shoulders of a pretty girl. An old farmer and his wife are strolling along, the old gentleman being a little ahead. He looks at the picture of the girl and fancies he sees the eyes winking at him. He puts on his glasses to make sure that he is not dreaming, when the girl leans forward with an expression as if inviting him to have a kiss. The old man is about to take advantage of his delusion when his wife appears on the scene, and taking him by the ears rushes him away.
- Two men duel with rapiers.
- Three young woman wearing pajamas are seen performing a tap dance.
- Three Sunday school teachers try to instruct the workers at a Chinese laundry. After Sunday school, the workers lure the teachers to an opium den. The men are arrested in a police raid
- Facing a stationary camera, sitting at a desk, a man works busily. Posters of burlesque queens are on the wall behind him. A single woman, followed later by later two others, comes into the office seeking a job. The manager hands each a box with a costume in it and points to dressing rooms. Each of the women has a different reaction when she discovers the nature of her costume, and the busy manager has a distinct response to each of the women as well.
- A man runs out the stage door of a burlesque theater, followed by billowing smoke. Firefighters run up. One places a ladder up to a second-story window beside the door, and he helps several women wearing burlesque costumes to climb down. On the other side of the door, a firefighter coaxes a woman out of a window. Two fire fighters enter the building and emerge soon after carrying a woman who has collapsed, overcome by smoke.
- Novelist April Poole reads her new book to Kerry Sarle, her publisher and sweetheart, and to Ronald Kenna, her editor. The story begins at a masked ball, where April meets Kerry and recognizes master thief Kenna. April retrieves a note discarded by Kenna and learns that he intends to steal the Mannister diamond. Meanwhile, the Earl of Mannister, hoping to end his daughter Diana's relationship with an impoverished American artist, orders her to deliver the jewel to her mannish female cousin, Clive Connal, in South Africa. Aboard the train, Diana persuades April to assume her identity. Eager to foil Kenna, April complies. When Kerry overhears a struggle in April's stateroom, he rushes in and ejects Kenna. In gratitude, April reveals her identity and mission. After Kerry receives a note from April that asks him to take the trunk to Clive, April disappears. Disconsolate, Kerry delivers the trunk. When Kenna and his cronies locate it, April springs out, pistol in hand, and captures them. As she concludes her tale, April embraces Kerry, who accepts the story.
- A woman in fancy dress enters a dressing room and begins to disrobe. She removes a coat, a top, and her skirt. As she starts to remove her chemise in front of the camera, she thinks the better of it and steps behind an opaque screen. Soon, she tosses her slip over the screen toward the camera. Then, she reaches with her naked arm across to a chair to grab her next costume. She emerges dressed in a very short and spangled skirt and top, ready for her next performance.
- The police bring in a woman for her mugshot.
- A small boy is sent from the table because his mother expects a caller. He slyly comes back and creeps under the table, where he pins his mother's gown to the tablecloth. When the caller arrives she arises to meet him and pulls the cloth with its burden of dishes to the floor.
- Our introduction to these gentlemen is while they are enjoying their sleep in the hay. The morning paper has fallen into the hands of Mack and an article in the society news interests him. It gives the intelligence that a member of Parliament is expected to be the guest of Mr. Franklin. Jack impersonates this gentleman and gets there first. Jack in his makeup has little difficulty in making the people believe he is the M.P. and the Franklins are extreme in their efforts to entertain him, having a match with their daughter in view. Jack sees this and immediately makes up to the fair young lady. A splendid dinner is indulged in; a stroll in the park, the finest cigars, etc., fall to Jack, while poor Mack is allowed to play the part of Tantalus in the distance. Mack's chagrin is becoming overwhelming and he loses control of his good nature when Jack is shown to his bedroom leaving Mack to shiver outside. Mack revolts. So getting a ladder he climbs up to the window, and notwithstanding the objections evinced by Jack he crawls inside. Jack, however, denies him a place in the bed. At this moment the real member of Parliament arrives, and Mack hearing someone approaching sneaks under the bed. Jack is unceremoniously bounced before he has a chance to clothe himself. Mack waits until they have left the room before coming from his hiding, then he gets into the vacated bed to at least enjoy a peaceful night's sleep, while Jack is forced to pass the same time shivering below the window, clothed only in a high hat and suit of pajamas.
- A small stage has a backdrop of a city street, sidewalks, a park, and buildings. From stage right, a boy leads a blind man onto the stage, helps him kneel with his hat and cane in front of him. The boy hands a sign, "pity the blind" around the man's neck and leaves. A fellow in a bowler hat passes by, dropping a coin in the blind man's hat. Then two well-dressed women enter, talking. They stop; one fishes a coin out of her purse for the blind man; the other asks her friend to keep a look out for passersby, as she lifts her skirt to adjust her garter and hose. Someone watches with delight.
- Two models showcase corsets for a prospective customer.
- The satirical short film shows a man selling lanterns to two well-dressed gentlemen for a comically large amount of money. They then begin marching away together while holding up a sign that says "Fusion, on to Brooklyn!".
- A Western cowboy attempts to flirt with a veiled young lady sitting on a bench in the garden. After considerable persuasion she is induced to raise her veil, but to the cowboy's amazement she reveals a hideous face. The cowboy leaves in disgust, but his place is quickly taken by a dapper Eastern youth who removes the mask from the girl's face, and the two enjoy a hearty laugh over the cowboy's discomfiture.
- Three pretty girls in evening costumes seated about a table blowing bubbles. As the bubbles are formed the young ladies drop them on the table and blow them across the surface.
- This is one of the most exciting and at the same time one of the most laughable subjects ever made. A lunatic confined in a barred cell, labors under the delusion that he is the Emperor Napoleon. In the first scene we see him in an altercation with his keepers over the quality of food furnished him. The keepers set upon him and beat him unmercifully and leave him unconscious. He comes to and determines to escape. Wrenching a leg from a table he bursts the bar of a window, smashes the glass and crawls out. The next scene shows him dropping a distance of 30 feet to the ground below. He picks himself up and starts off at a run. The faces of the keepers appear at the cell window for an instant, but quickly they come running out of the main entrance to the asylum, and start in pursuit of the escaped lunatic. Then follows a series of thrilling and ludicrous chases through the mostly picturesque scenery. The lunatic is cornered on a bridge over a waterfall, but manages to overcome the keeper and hurls him into the rapids below. In another scene he crosses a torrent on a slender wire cable swinging loose above it. Time after time the lunatic succeeds in circumventing his keepers. Finally, however, he tires of the chase and is seen running back to the asylum. He leaps the 30 feet back to the window and when the keepers, all blown and covered with mud, rush into the cell, Napoleon I, is calmly reading a newspaper.
- Captain Leyton treats his son, Boy, harshly to eliminate every weakness, but he is so overjoyed at Boy's courageous defense of the character of his sweetheart, Minnie, that he has a heart attack. Before he dies, Leyton charges Boy with avenging his mother's desertion of his father for another man. Boy finds his mother; discovers the other man to be Leyton's first mate, Morgan; hurls Morgan overboard; and returns to marry Minnie.
- This subject is the same as No. 1863 [ANNA HELD], but shown in full length figure. Both are admirable, and make hits either in the Biograph or Mutoscope.
- A young girl is receiving her lover against the wishes of her father. They hear him coming, and the lover hides in the coal box. The coal man comes in and empties a bag of coal upon the unfortunate young man. Hearing another suspicious noise, the lover hides in the chimney. This time the father enters and starts a fire in the fire-place. The lover falls down from his warm perch, covered with soot.
- A handsome young couple are playing the old game of "Cat's Cradle" with a piece of string and using it as a pretext for exchanging kisses. It does not always work, so they abandon the string and take their kisses in the normal way. Figures are large and the action very good. Photographic quality very high.
- An Italian vendor puts his push cart in front of a dynamite storage shed, and the whole business blows up.
- A near-sighted beau brings some flowers to a pretty girl. She leaves the room for an instant and a colored maid enters and proceeds to arrange the flowers. The near-sighted chap at once seizes her hand and proceeds to cover it with kisses, much to the amazement of the maid and of the mistress, who in the meantime has returned.
- Alphonse and Gaston are in an American barber shop. They interrupt business with their exaggerated politeness, and the waiting customers throw them out of the window.
- Hans meets his best girl in the park, but is deserted in favor of a gaily uniformed soldier. Hans decides if the uniform is so effective he will get one, and in the second scene he is shown in a costume shop where he hires a complete outfit. After arraying himself in the outfit (uniform), which is about as ill-fitting and ridiculous as can be imagined, Hans goes back to the park. The girl is enraptured at his brave appearance, but unfortunately just at that moment a detachment of real soldiers happens along and seeing him off duty in a uniform, arrest Hans as a deserter and carry him off to a camp. In the last scene poor Hans is seen locked in the stocks, where he is being teased and tormented by the soldiers.
- A lighthearted spoof of family life and fatherhood. President Roosevelt, who had just won reelection, believed Americans had to lead "the strenuous life" (it was the title of one of his books) if the United States was to retain its position of world leadership. He also declared that married women of northern European stock had a responsibility to produce at least four children to prevent "race suicide." Porter combined these two elements into a burlesque: the father returns home as his wife gives birth and soon finds himself caring for quadruplets. Using a close up, Porter shows the father's initial expression of pride as he weighs the first baby, but this expression quickly changes to distress as the nurse brings in one infant after another.
- A man seems to be at the races, rooting for his favorite number.
- As the scene opens a safe robber is shown busily engaged in his preparations for blowing open a safe. As he lights the fuse, Hooligan comes in by a window and frightens him away. Holligan is no sooner on the scene, however, when the safe explodes with a terrific crash. Hooligan goes down in the debris and as he arises to inspect the ruins, the fat policeman rushes in and arrests him as the malefactor. An exceedingly comical and catchy subject. Well done throughout.
- The scene is laid in front of the hosiery counter in a department store. Under the counter are four pairs of stocking forms with showy stockings on them. Four girls stand behind the counter in such fashion that it appears as if the legs belonged to them. A jay and his wife enter. He is greatly interested, but his wife is shocked and leads him away. The girls then work about behind the counter, showing the joke.
- The boys try to play a trick on Foxy Grandpa with the punching machine, but he manipulates it so well that the joke is turned on the boys, who are bowled over by the punching arm.