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- An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
- A young Italian artist, in love with and loved by a sweet country girl, is "discovered" by a gentleman, visiting the home of the young people, to be a genius of great ability and future. He induces the young fellow to go to the city with him to take up the study of art and make a name for himself. The young fellow goes and becomes a great painter, courted and feted by a large following of admirers. He forgets his country sweetheart, although she keeps a constant watch for his letters and anxiously awaits news of his success or whereabouts. After a year or more news eventually reaches the poor girl through a newspaper, and then she learns that he has become blind and must lay aside his paint and palette forever. In his blindness he is deserted by his so-called friends and admirers and becomes very poor, but there is one who still loves him and goes to him in his hour of need. The sweetheart of his younger days comes to the city and does not give up her search for him until she finds him, comforts him and takes him back to her home.
- An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. His rival is delayed when he gets caught in a woman's bedroom by her jealous husband. The swindler follows the distribution of the paper containing his 'scoop' around town where he is once again chased by the rival reporter. Both end up on the cow-catcher of a streetcar.
- A child is seated on his mother's knee while she sings the old hymn, "Just as I Am." From the boy there develops a man, who has forgotten his childhood days, and becomes a desperate criminal. Known as Wilson, he affiliates with two other crooks, Hungerford and Randall. In the holdup, Hungerford shoots his victim, and makes it appear that Wilson had performed the crime, and sends Wilson to prison for the rest of his life. As the mill of the law keeps on grinding, Randall, another of the gang, becomes a convict. He meets Wilson in prison and tells him that Hungerford has reformed, and has settled down on a small farm in Wilson's home town. Wilson escaping from prison, comes to his mother's home, but is ashamed to enter. He goes down the main street. It is a Sabbath morning, and all the people are going to church. Wilson follows them and through the church windows hears them singing the hymn, "Just as I Am." It recalls the days of his childhood, and takes the vengeance out of his heart. But thinking of the injustice done him by Hungerford, Wilson again resolves to kill the man. As he goes to Hungerford's home, and as he is about to kill him from a hiding place, Hungerford's little girl runs directly in front of a runaway team. Wilson snatches the child from beneath the horses' feet, and in doing so he is fatally injured. Broken and bleeding, he is rescued by his own mother and again by her knee he breathes his last. Hungerford recognizes the man he had wronged, and is left with a guilty conscience as punishment.
- Convict Cheyenne Harry escapes from prison in a garbage truck and boards a train, where he eludes capture with the help of passenger Henry Beaufort.
- A film about the French general's youth and early military career.
- Giovanni Martinelli sings "Céleste Aïda" from the opera "Aïda", by Giuseppe Verdi and Antonio Ghislanzoni.
- Felix gets involved in some surreal Halloween pranks, then visits a fortune-telling owl who foretells romance. But can Felix find the cat of his dreams on such a spooky night?
- The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
- The season series of Silly Symphonies continues, with squirrels storing nuts and corn, crows stealing it, beavers building a dam, ducks migrating, and the like, as the first snows fall.
- Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.
- With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
- The life of Saint Anthony of Padua taped in Italy and hosted by Bob and Penny Lord.
- Krazy Kat is practicing playing music but the musical instruments rebel against him.
- A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.
- Trying to desert their draft into the army, Wilkie and Mitchell stow away on a ship that takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidentally destroy an ammunition dump.
- A stork drops a baby (Krazy) down a chimney in a musical instrument store, where he impersonates Ted Lewis and gets the whole shop to start playing jazz.Then Krazy hops aboard a plane, crop-dusting the surface of the Earth with the infectious strains of "St.Louis Blues",finally landing in New York, getting a parade and a key from Jimmy Walker.
- Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.
- Krazy and Kitty are riding through the desert on a camel. a turbaned mystic sees them via crystal ball,and magically makes Kitty appear in his castle. Krazy breaches it's walls to confront him and rescue Kitty from his clutches.In the end it's revealed that they've just been listening to a Chandu-type programme.
- Santa's little helpers must hurry to finish the toys before Christmas Day.
- A Columbia animated short. Hilarious look at subway riding as Krazy Kat tries to bored a packed subway car.
- Mickey's in trouble when Pluto and Fifi eat Minnie's chocolates.
- Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.
- On Christmas Eve, the Little King sneaks two tramps into the castle. The next morning, the three men are thrilled by the presents Santa left behind.
- The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.
- A woman, unable to care for her son, is placed in the care of Oswald, who's a wax museum owner.
- The stooges discover Curly's hidden talent for boxing, which appears only when he hears the tune "Pop Goes the Weasel". With the help of Larry's violin, Moe attempts to turn him into a champion.
- A Columbia animated short. Both Krazy Kat and Kitty perform in the circus. He's upstaged by a trapeze artist. With the song playing throughout Krazy gets arrested for assaulting the trapeze artist. The court trial ensues.
- In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
- The stooges become doctors at a large hospital where they disrupt patients and staff alike.
- Bosko entertains while his girlfriend goes out to get an ice cream cone.
- A runaway heiress and her sister's husband join forces to race the latter's fast horse, Broadway Bill.
- Toni lives with her father, writer Matthew Martin, in the Sequoia forests of California. While walking, she finds and brings home, a small puma which she calls 'Gato' and a young fawn, called 'Malibu'. The three become friends which violates the normal rules of nature. After a few years, Toni and her dad leave and Gato and Malibu are returned to the wild. They do their animal things, but the two are still friendly. When Toni and Matthew return, they find that logging and hunting have decimated the animals in the area. They also find that their neighbor, Bergman, who has trapped animals for years, is now leading hunting parties and kills even the fawns. It is up to Gato and Malibu if they are to survive.
- A Columbia animated short. Krazy Kat impersonates a bird and discovers all the issues a bird deals with daily.
- In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
- Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.
- When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires, but not all is what it seems.
- Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones." As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.
- A haunted Scottish castle is dismantled and transported to Florida, bringing the family ghost along with it.
- The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
- A bellhop in the No 1. hotel of a smalltown awaiting the arrival of Miss Glory dreams he has to page Miss Glory at a first class hotel in New York, and this turns out to be a nightmare. Finally he is awakened by the manager, because Miss Glory's car has arrived, but instead of a beautiful lady, a child star a la Shirley Temple steps out ...
- A little girl named Star lives with the lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives.
- Quitting time for a scarecrow. He gets home, and his little boy scares him. To the title song, he teaches his son the basics of scare-crowing. Bedtime for junior; he prays to be a big scarecrow, just like his daddy. The next morning he sneaks out before anyone else is up and practices scaring a rooster, a squirrel, and a rabbit. He takes up his father's place, but the crows are not impressed; in fact, the crow goes on the attack. Junior finally thinks he's found a pose that works, but in fact Dad's come up behind him. Of course, in the telling, he's much more heroic...
- A characterization of Bing Crosby as a fly, who comes down to woo all the other insects with his singing talent, and aerial skills.
- The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers.
- A child would rather listen to the radio than go to bed, but mother insists. He sleeps, but at midnight, his toys come alive and put on a show for him (much of it recycled, though often with different backgrounds, from earlier cartoons).
- At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received broken toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.
- A young girl lost in Shanghai is taken in by an American playboy and his girlfriend.