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- Two love triangles intersect in ancient Pompei.
- Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But a love affair with a handsome Greek whom she meets in Byzantium leads to revolution and armed conflict in both Byzantium and Rome.
- A four chapter film including Satan vs the Creator, Satan vs the Saviour, The Green Demon/Satan during the Dark Ages and The Red Demon/Satan in modern times.
- Episode 2: "Zingo and the White Elephant" Zingo and his wife, Sari, who are returning from their adventures in Mexico, when Zingo learns from his newspaper that the Royal Elephant of Siam has been stolen and for whose return a large reward will be paid. Not content with settling down to a quiet domestic life, he persuades Sari and his good crew to aid him in finding this white elephant. In the Royal Square of the Capitol of Siam, he reviews the troops which are all comprised of women, which is the custom there. The Prime Minister bids Zingo and his men to visit the Royal Harem. Here they are captured by the troops and are about to be tortured to death when Sari, disguised as a colonel in the army, aids them in escaping. They find the province of Chokuff where the white elephant has been secreted, and catching the Prince making love to Sari, they demand the white elephant. He promises, but traps them all in his dungeon. They are all, but Zingo, placed in barrels with their heads protruding. Zingo files away the bars of his cage, and rolls the barrels by the guards, who are in a stupor from opium smoking. He swims down the river, towing his crew in the barrels. After a fierce encounter with the Prince of Chokuff's army, he attacks the Royal barge in the Blud River, and after a bitter struggle in which he disposes of the entire crew by throwing them overboard, he captures the white elephant and recovers his faithful Sari. He returns the sacred elephant to the King of Siam, and after a big reception by royalty and the populace, Zingo is awarded rich treasures for his noble work. Episode 3: "Zingo in Africa" After returning from Asia with his jolly band of tars, laden with gold and precious stones as a reward for his clever work in recovering the Sacred White Elephant of Siam, Zingo thought he would never again feel the call of the sea, and he didn't for several months. But the wanderlust fever soon returned, and taking his wife as his sole companion, he set out for the wilds of Africa in search of fresh adventures. From this point on, let us follow Zingo down the Nile, and record his hairbreadth escapes. Selecting a likely spot, Zingo and Sari, his wife, make camp. Hearing piercing shrieks just back of their tent, they don bear skins and hasten to the spot in time to prevent the execution of two beautiful native girls by a band of savages. The two girls now become members of Zingo's party, happy to serve their gallant protector. The next day Zingo puts on his armored hunting suit to battle with hungry lions, who have been prowling about the camp. After an hour's terrific struggle with a pair of lions, Zingo returns to find his party gone, and many evidences of a struggle. Suspecting that they have been kidnapped by roving gorillas, Zingo sets off through the forest and eventually comes to the bottom of a large tree sheltering the crudely made gorilla nest. Having a smattering of monkey chatter, he quickly gains an entrance to the nest, and there discovers his wife and the girls more frightened than harmed. The good-natured gorillas listen attentively while Zingo explains that they must proceed up the Nile in their power boat, and they bid the party an affectionate farewell. During an inspection of the Pyramids, Zingo and his party encounter some knavish artists, who drug him and make love to Sari and the native girls. Zingo is boxed up and sold to a London professor as a rare specimen, and does not regain his senses until weeks later. After startling the assembled professors out of their wits, he charters an aeroplane and flies back to Egypt overnight in time to punish the cringing artists and save Sari and her servants from further insult. Then with a last fond look down the Nile River, Zingo and his party board the aeroplane and sail back to Paris. Episode 4: "Zingo's War in the Clouds" Zingo, while working and studying over the prospectus of the Eldorado Mine in his library in Paris, is visited by his faithful crew, who are restless from lying in port and beg of him to put to sea in search of new adventures. Zingo agrees to their proposal, and decides to submit a gigantic scheme to the Eldorado Directorate for working their mine. Arriving in Mexico, he finds the mine operators are entertaining a scheme presented to them by one, Fileas Fogg. Zingo exposes Fogg's crookedness and is awarded the contract for working the mine. In order to study the country around the mines, Zingo and his wife, Sari, erect huts in a nearby river to live in. Fogg, enraged at Zingo for exposing him, with the aid of a savage Indian tribe, attacks Zingo in his river home, and after a thrilling encounter, captures Zingo and Sari. They are bound hand and foot and told they are to be executed the next morning. A pretty Indian girl sets Zingo free in the night, and rides off with him. Zingo calls on the Federal army and is honored by being given the rank of commanding officer, After reviewing his troops and submarine guards. Zingo attacks Fogg's troops, who use chloroform bombs and a special pneumatic sucker to repel his army. Zingo's submarine troops attack Fogg's deep water divers and after a severe encounter in the depths, Zingo's men are victorious. Vanquished under the sea, Fogg takes refuge in a huge motor balloon with Sari still in his power. After a most thrilling battle in which a dozen types of balloons are used, Zingo's dirigible manages to catch Fogg, and after transferring Sari, he cuts the ropes suspending the basket from the bag, and Fogg drops into eternity. Zingo sights his yacht directly below him and by lowering a rope and making it fast to the mast, they all descend and are joyously received by the crew. Zingo promises all to return home after settling up his business affairs in Mexico.
- Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in making Poppea the new empress, but soon he faces opposition from an outraged populace.
- Hoping to please her, some children give their grandmother an electric lamp for her birthday, but the elderly lady does not intend to put the old oil lamp in the attic and tells the young people that the object has a huge value for her.
- The Story of the gallant knight Sir Parsifal (Percival) of Arthur's Round Table and his quest to find the Holy Grail.
- The showman needed a trainer for his lions, and when the girl offered herself he engaged her, not only because of her experience in handling the Kings of the Forest, but because she fascinated him. When the perilous cargo of denizens of the jungle had been safely placed amid ship the showman and the girl went along. While on the cruise the ship picked up a cargo of smuggled gold dust, and when the girl repulsed the showman's attentions, and showed her preference for the captain, the showman incited the crew to mutiny, to secure the gold dust. As the rioting crew charged upon them the girl and the captain dashed below deck; fastening the hatches they sought to escape. Before they dropped into the small dory alongside the girl set the lions free and just as they left the captain fired the ship. Maddened beyond all description, the crew battered open the batch, to be greeted by flames and smoke, and worst of all, a peril they had little expected. The lions were free. They drove the men into the rigging and as the ship sank the lions dashed over the side of the boat to freedom, while the crew and the showman went to their doom.
- A young man named Leandro tries to force himself onto his love interest, but she already has another man, and while escaping punishment for his rushed actions, he enters an alchemist's house and releases the lame devil that was being held there. Together they make some mischief.
- The Spirit of Evil, driven out of Heaven, flies to the mountains of Caucasus, and determines to conquer the soul of Tamara, a beautiful princess. The Demon causes the death of her lover and soon begins to exert an irresistible influence on Tamara, who hides in a convent to escape him. The Demon descends in the night and forcing his way past an Angel who seeks to stop him, takes Tamara, powerless to resist, in his arms. As he kisses her the touch of his poisonous lips cause her to fall lifeless, and the Demon is foiled.
- The first part of the film shows the training stunt, at Raicevich's Villa, the massage, etc. The champions are then introduced and the men get into action. First bout; Jourdan, the French champion, vs. Lopmajar, the Austrian champion. Second bout: Emile Raicevich. Italian, vs. Shinaplier, the Prussian champion. Third bout: John Raicevich, champion of the world, vs. Anglio, the Black Giant of Martinique.
- A witch casts a spell over a poor fisherman.
- A number of children are playing in the woods, when a dog makes his way up to them with a splinter in his foot. One of the children withdraws this and bandages the foot with a handkerchief, whereupon the dog returns to his master, a peddler. Seeking the hiding place of a squirrel the oldest of the three children falls from a tree and lies there unconscious. The shades of night are gathering fast and the other children are making every effort to locate their brother, but in vain, and with heavy hearts and tear-dimmed eyes they return to the anxious mother and relate their experiences. The neighborhood is all agitation in a few moments and all join in search of the missing lad. A peddler happening along seeks the cause of the excitement and offers his dog as assistance. The other little ones recognize the dog and, showing the animal the handkerchief, the dog is off in quest of the one who served him so kindly. All follow into the woods and, with lighted torches, they seek the lad. The dog, however, is the successful one, and soon leads the anxious father to his son. Returning home with the lad all are overjoyed, and the father wishes to reward the peddler, but he accepts nothing, as he maintains that the obligation rests upon him for the kindness of the boy towards the dog.
- Tweedledum wears a white suit and is caught in the rain. He stubbornly proceeds on his way and encounters so many accidents that he is forced to return home in a pitiful state.
- A sculptor leaves his model alone in his atelier. After initially being afraid of being alone in the atelier, the model falls asleep. In her dreams, the faun statue that is also present in the atelier comes to life. The two fall in love.
- The instrument maker finds trade exceedingly dull. His stock of scientific instruments, telescopes, etc., attracts a little curiosity, but no buyers. At last he pens a note which he hastens to forward to the newspapers, announcing that next day there will be an eclipse of the sun. Next day his shop is full, and it is vs much as he can do to hand out telescopes, glasses, etc., in return for the money which flows in. The real fun begins when the customers, with their glasses, get into the street. With the glasses glued to their eyes they stand and gaze at the sun in such intense preoccupation that a couple-or pickpockets find it child's play to go through their pockets, even two police officers yielding something to the light-fingered artists. Elsewhere a row of sky-gazers are knocked down and run over by a motor. A crowded balcony falls in ruins without disturbing the gazers' interest. in the sky, while two motorists drive full tilt at one another, and while their cars oscillate backwards and forwards they continue their examining of the eclipse.
- In the form of an elegantly dressed gentleman, Mephistopheles appears with the intention of working havoc in the heart of a woman, whose devotion to her little daughter embodies all that true affection which only a mother can express for her first-born. Although endeavoring to resist the temptations of the persuasive lover, the woman becomes aware of her weakness against this designing person, who tells her that if she will not give him her love voluntarily, he will steal her heart by force. Then the man's form is mysteriously replaced with that of the Devil, who abstracts the heart of his victim and departs. The little daughter, returning from school, greets her mother with much show of affection, but her parent gives back but a cold response. The Devil has transformed her into a different person. Her affections have been stolen. All the warmth of her soul, all motherly instinct and love have departed. The child is much distressed at the sudden change in her mother, and after many tears, prays to the Holy Virgin for help. Her pleadings are answered by the appearance of a fairy, who comforts the child and explains how she can help to restore the lost bond of love. "Your mother's heart has been stolen," she says, "and this veil I give to you will help you to overcome all obstacles in your search for the person who has taken possession of your mother's love. Go to the Devil's Castle, and there you will regain your mother's heart." Little Elsie sets out upon her mission, and her progress being stopped by a river, the magic veil is brought into use, with the result that a bridge is immediately brought into existence for the help of the little wayfarer. Next threatened by two ill-looking witches, she again employs the fairy's veil, and raises up a barrier of fire and smoke to the defeat of her pursuers. Eventually reaching the Devil's Castle, she wields her wonderful power in overcoming the castle guards, and gains entrance to the sanctum of his satanic majesty. But here she is rudely treated and cast into a dungeon. One of the devil's minions, however, taking compassion upon her, guides her to the Devil's throne, where the great tempter and heart robber is slumbering. Now is the moment of her triumph. Never was a heart sought with greater fervor and desire than little Elsie evinces in her anxiety to regain this lost love of her mother. With a supreme effort she casts the veil over the sleeping demon, and in an instant be is secured in bonds of cord from which he cannot escape. Courageously approaching the Devil, the little girl, by a mysterious power, is able to gain possession of the stolen heart, and in ecstasies of delight returns home with her priceless treasure. With her former affections reinstated, the mother is able to respond with nature's promptings to the caresses and love of her child. The bond of unity being once again firmly established, the machinations of the Devil are defeated.
- Giannello was the son of a goldsmith, who had been commissioned to set some jewels for Monna Biancaone, one of the great ladies of Pisa, and mother of the beautiful Vanna. Father and son set out together to take the jewels to the lady. Vanna is gathering roses and loses her ring. Gianello finds it for her, and she binds up his hand, which has been torn by the thorns. From that day the young people think of nothing but each other, though their station in life is so far apart. Vanna, however, is betrothed to Sir Guido Colonna. Gianello, divining that another will gather the sweet flower, climbs the wall of the palace to see Vanna once more. He is surprised by some of the palace retainers and taken for a thief. He is led into the presence of Vanna and her mother, and the young girl identifies him as the goldsmith's son and asks to have him taken back to his father. This is done, Gianello protests to his father that he is not a thief, but says that no one shall ever know his secret. His father is angry and determines that his son shall become a soldier. The captain of a band of adventurous soldiers is glad to accept Giannello as a recruit. The goldsmith's son makes a willing soldier. Pisa in the meantime is rejoicing in the marriage of Vanna and Sir Guido. But their happy days do not last long. The Florentines move against the Pisans and Pisa is invested for a long siege. The siege lasts a long time and the people of the city are nearly starving. At last Guido is forced to send an envoy to the Florentine general to beg tor peace terms. Prinzivalle, as he is now known, is none other than the goldsmith's son, Giannello, who has become commander of the Florentine forces. He dictates the following terms: "Pisa shall have peace and victuals only if Monna Vanna comes to me this night bringing the fairest roses in her garden." Vanna accepts the terms for her people's sake. In the meantime Prinzivalle has sent the food supplies to the city. The signal of acceptance of the terms glows from the tower of Pisa, and Vanna comes to the tent of the general. They talk together and at last Vanna recognizes in him the son of the goldsmith. He tells her that Pisa is already fed, and she gives him the roses she has brought. Vedio, his lieutenant, comes to warn him that the Florentines are furious and are coming to arrest him. Vanna promises him that Pisa will save him out of gratitude. He goes with her. But Guido proves unworthy of his noble wife. He refuses to believe in her innocence and Prinzivalle is sent to the dungeons. Here Vanna joins him, declaring that Guido's outrageous words severed the tie between them, and that she is free to follow her heart. Vanna unlocks the door and they leave together.
- The city of Naples is in the grasp of the plague, and the terrified people are mowed down by the awful disease. The king with his court flees to a distant castle, where death is mockingly defied, behind locked doors. Death, a shadowy specter, carrying his scythe, stalks into the castle, presenting a weird and awe-inspiring sight, and casts the plague upon all except a poor woman and her two little children, whose pleadings moved the king to take them along, and who, alone, prayed to be spared.
- Set in Sardinia, a barren and disconsolate land, where Rosalia, a poor young mother, entrusts her only son, Anania, to the natural father, who is well-off and already married. The years pass. Rosalia ages in misery, Anania becomes an adult and is about to marry. He returns to the country in order to find his mother and invite her to the wedding, but his fiancée does not appreciate this. Rosalia is abandoned once again...
- This story first takes you to Misslimeri, a little Sicilian village, and into the home of Don Ruggero, a wealthy landowner. Don Ruggero is an iron-hearted man and strongly prejudiced against the lower classes. His son, Corrado, a young fellow, loves Rosalia, a shepherdess, but Don Ruggero has always refused to allow their marriage and to recognize little Vincenzino, their child, as his grandchild. Finally to destroy all Corrado's hopes, he discharges poor Rosalia from his farm, where she had been employed for many years. Even the sight of her departure with Vincenzino in her arms does not soften him. Rosalia is the very ideal of the Sicilian beauty, and Capt. Altieri, an officer in the service of the Dominators, the Bourbons, admires her immensely, but all his approaches are strongly repulsed by her. Don Ruggero and his son have for a long time conspired to free their motherland from the hands of the Bourbons, and when they receive news of the arrival of Garibaldi, who had sailed with only 1,000 soldiers from Quarto, near Genoa, to fight for the freedom of Sicily, they leave their village to join him and the other conspirators. The rendezvous is at Plana del Greci, where they find Garibaldi just starting out to conquer Palermo. In the meantime Capt. Altieri steals from Rosalia her little son, hoping thus to succeed in his vile scheme, and starts out to join the Bourbons' headquarters in Marineo near Corleone. Colonel Bosco, the commander-in-chief of the Bourbon army, entrusts Capt. Altieri with an important message to be delivered to the almost doomed Palermo. Altieri starts out, and on his way meets Rosalia, who implores him for the restoration of her child. Upon the sight of her, he forgets his important mission and drags her into an uninhabited house, where he has concealed Vincenzino in an upper room. The little boy, hearing the cries of his mother, rushes down to save her and drops some ashes into the eyes of her aggressor. Taking advantage of his instantaneous blindness, she steals the message Altieri had with him and runs away to Garibaldi's headquarters. Her courageous act meets with high approval from Garibaldi, and wins for her the consent of Don Ruggero to her long-delayed marriage to Corrado.
- This film shows actual scenes of Turkish spies and Arab traitors escorted to be shot; Italian warships in Tripoli Harbor; troops crossing the market place; sailors behind the trenches; the day before the battle of Sidi-Messri; the 11th and 84th Regiments in action; the Hamidje Fort after bombardment; the mess at the outposts; Red Cross Hospital; officers on guard; an oasis camp.
- The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- Robinet, caught flirting with a married woman by her husband, disguises himself as the woman's female friend.