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- A winner and sure to please. In front of one of the largest newspaper offices is a hot air shaft through which immense volumes of air are forced by a blower. Ladies in crossing this shaft often have their clothes slightly disarranged. A young man is escorting a young lady and talking very earnestly. They walk slowly along until they stand directly over the air shaft. The young lady's skirts are suddenly raised to an almost unreasonable height, greatly to her horror and much to the amusement of the newsboys, bootblacks, and passersby.
- Inspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.
- Lincoln's proclamation of the first Thanksgiving Day in November 1963, is the occasion for a story of Lincoln's secretary's involvement with a Confederate spy who is his brother-in-law.
- The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
- The King of Kurland, a small European country, suggests a marriage between his son and Angela, the Princess of Arcacia, a neighboring small country with whom Kurland has been having problems. The fiery Angela angrily rejects the idea of marrying someone she doesn't know, but the prince is determined to go through with it. He visits Arcacia disguised as a minor nobleman and Angela, not knowing his real identity, meets and falls in love with him. Complications ensue.
- Prepossessing young Stephen Adams has been reared as an enemy to society. He truly believes that his mission on earth is to rob the undeserving rich so he can help the poor. Returning to America with his associates, Hilary Quackenbos and George LeFay, after a rich haul on the chateau of a French lottery swindler, he meets on shipboard Stephen Janissary, head of the great chain of Janissary grocery stores, and Decima Duress, Janissary's ward. On the ship, Adams wins $5,000 away from Janissary at cards and gives the money to Decima for the model tenements she is building for the poor. An active enmity springs up between the two men. Adams reports his success abroad to the two men who have schooled him in crime, Wulf Axtell, a modern Fagin, and Balthazar Van Tromp, another doddering old man. Adams comes to realize that his past life is an effectual bar to asking Miss Duress to marry him, so he goes to his old pals to tell them he is through with them. Van Tromp, before Adams speaks, proposes that Adams next rob the Janissary home. Adams refuses and announces that he will go straight. Meanwhile Decima has been approached for help by Alderman McKenna, whom Janissary threatens to crush unless he votes his way on a traction franchise. Janissary holds over McKenna's head some old falsified indictments. Janissary keeps them in his safe. Decima asks Adams to get the indictments. He agrees. He goes to his old associates and says he has decided to rob the Janissary home. They get him the plans of the house. On the night of a big ball, Stephen Adams opens the Janissary safe. Then Balthazar Von Tromp has the revenge for which he labored many years: He goes to the ball and tells Janissary that his safe is being robbed. When Adams comes downstairs with the police at his heels, Von Tromp tells his secret: Adams is Janissary's son whom Von Tromp kidnapped when Adams was an infant and reared in a life of crime. The son has robbed his own father for the love of a girl. To substantiate his statement Von Tromp dangles before Janissary's eyes the shoes which the kidnapped baby wore. Janissary, broken in heart, dismisses his guests and bids the police release Adams. Then his better nature asserts itself and father and son are reunited. Later Stephen Adams marries Decima Duress, the girl for whom he attempted to re-enter the life of crime temporarily, and forswears his old associates and ways forever.
- In order to help her smuggler kinsmen, a sultry gypsy seduces and corrupts an officer of the Civil Guard turning him into a traitor and murderer.
- Max Fleischer's pen drawing of a clown performs tricks with lifelike motion.
- Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
- Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.
- The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
- Master Tom is lured away from his job of protecting the house from mice by the charms of "Miss Kitty". While he's gone, the mice trash the house. Complications ensue.
- Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
- In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
- A seemingly idiotic fop is really the courageous vigilante Zorro, who seeks to protect the oppressed.
- On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.
- The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.
- When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.
- Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
- Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
- In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
- A shiftless young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman and yearns to find her again.
- A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.
- The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.
- In 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with a gypsy dancer.
- A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
- A kept woman runs into her former fiancé and finds herself torn between love and comfort.
- A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
- Cyrano de Bergerac is a joyous and witty poet filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th-century France. He has only one flaw: an unusually long nose which makes him unattractive to any woman.
- After hearing the story of Moses, the sons of a devout Christian mother go their own ways, and the atheist brother's breaking of the Ten Commandments leads to tragedy.
- 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.
- A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
- A shy young man who can't talk to women ventures out to publish a book full of fictional conquests, but finds true love along the way.
- A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
- Princess Kriemhild vows to avenge her husband's murder but must overcome her brothers who swore allegiance to Hagen. She marries Etzel, King of the Huns, and persuades his army to attack Hagen, but she loses more than she bargained for.
- After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
- Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
- The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
- An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.
- The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
- A man learns that he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7PM that evening.
- Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. When Sally is arrested McGargle proves her real parentage.
- A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.
- With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
- Two couples' romances are fancifully intertwined.
- In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.