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- The film includes two parts: a first part tends to fully reconstruct a day in the life of the village, and the second part reconstructs a series of events related to the social life of the village.
- A factory worker steals a large sum of money and commits murder. In the dock, he succeeds in shifting the blame to his friend. The innocent turner is sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. His wife is a mistress of the criminal who deserts her soon after. He for his part becomes a wealthy merchant thanks to the stolen money... The prisoner's daughter studies at the Art Academy. Every day she notices a poor woman in front of the Academy. The girl does not suspect that this is her mother who wants to look at her child from a distance... Retribution comes: the injustice is set right and the true culprit is punished. The honest worker, his wife and their daughter are reunited.
- Ted Wayne, a smiling, dangerous cowboy, rescues Mabel and her father from a runaway team and later advises the old man against buying a mine from Hank Sims, an unsavory character.
- A surreal short film in which a young man embarks on a journey through villages and the countryside.
- Rancher Jack Gardner is ambushed and awakens in a hospital and finds that his ranch has been illegally sold out from under him to an old lady and her niece Peggy. Believing the new owner to be a man, because she is named Pat, Jack threatens many things, but when he meets "the nice old lady" and realizes she too is a victim, he takes another path to right both wrongs. Meanwhile, the swindler has snooped around and discovered ore on the Gardner ranch, and is now trying to buy back what wasn't his to begin with.
- 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.
- The Cartwright ranch, owned by the father of Dick Cartwright (Tom Tyler) is an a range feud against neighboring rancher Joe Darling (J.P. McGowan) , each accusing the other of rustling cattle, headed by a masked rider. The actual rustling is being done by Calhoun Hardy (Harry Woods), in a scheme designed to take over both ranches. The feud is making a big problem for Dick Cartwright and his sweetheart Grace Darling (Lotus Thompson).
- Archive footage from the 1920s juxtaposed against a film-within-a-film parodying the melodramatic excesses of popular cinema of the day.
- Bob Shaw, the sheriff of Rimrock, and his deputies raid a gambling joint suspected of serving bootleg liquor, but the owner manages to hide the contraband.
- Using as his only clue, the button of of a coat, George Hardcastle (Bob Steele), begins the search for the murderer of his father Pepper Hardcastle (J. P.
- Advertising film about the fight against alcoholism in the workplace.
- A silent documentary film by John Grierson telling the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.
- A courting couple goes boating the Thames.
- How a funny Sunday is spent in the area of Paris and its surroundings.
- There is trouble on the Bar D ranch as cowhand Mile Ahead plans to rustle the herd. He starts a fire on the opposite side of the ranch to keep the hands busy and also kidnaps the new school teacher. Fighting the fire, Foreman Denver leans the cattle are gone and going after Mile Ahead, learns the teacher is a prisoner in the school and the fire that is now out of control is heading her way.
- The express company had been robbed and a man is caught and sent to prison but the loot is not recovered. The company sends an investigator who soon suspects the convicted man is innocent and only covering for the guilty culprit.
- A young fireman on the Flying Scotsman train falls in love with the beautiful daughter of the driver who is about to retire. The young fireman has replaced another named Crow who was sacked for drinking on the job and is planning to wreck the express on the driver's last trip.
- After demobilization, Silk Merrick and Chicken O'Toole go west and find work on an Arizona ranch. Fired from their jobs for laziness, they are caught by Mary Barton attempting to steal one of her chickens.
- Crooked Bluff Hardcastle is appointed by the court to take care of the business affairs of pretty young Helen Saunders' ranch, which is about to go out of business, but Hardcastle is secretly planning to swindle her out of the ranch. He is thwarted by cowboy Jim Donovan and his friend, banker George Masters, who buy Helen's ranch at auction. Angered, Hardecastle sends his hired thugs to get rid of Donovan and Masters so he can get his hands on the ranch.
- Purchasing the Carney Carnival and Road Show, unscrupulous sportsman Martin Trask assumes he has ownership of Rex, the world's greatest trained horse, and its rider, Margie Smith , but the girl releases Rex, flees from Trask in a runaway wagon, and finds shelter with young cowboy farmer Jack Merritt, with whom she falls in love. Trask cancels the mortgage he holds on Jack's property in return for Margie's accompanying him, but Jack learns the truth and pursues them. Rex comes to Margie's aid and kills Trask, while Jack rescues the girl from a tree limb on the side of a cliff.
- The president of a trust company frames his cashiers for his theft of funds so that he can also collect from the bonding companies. Bob Benton (Gareth Hughes), an assistant cashier, aids his sweetheart, Grace Carlton (Josephine Hill,) the sister of a framed cashier, in finding the evidence to clear her brother's name. A dog named Champion helps, also.
- A story that is built up with filmed documents in an experimental fashion.
- The Oklahoma Kid (Bob Custer) is sent to New Mexico to buy and deliver back to Texas a cattle herd from the T-Bar-S ranch of cattleman Standing (Henry Roquemore.) He is soon in the middle of trouble caused by the Petty (J.P.McGowan) gang, who wants the herd and the money.Petty has henchman Pete Gibbs (Tommy Bay) impersonate the Kid, but the Kid, unknown to Petty and Gibbs, has a map of Oklahoma tatooed on his arm that serves as his identification.
- Louise Hill has the combination to the safe and is the bookkeeper for George Morrow at his investment firm. She goes to lunch, is hit upon by Herbert Winslow , gives him a brush-off and goes back to work. But she drops her purse containing the combination to the safe. That night, Winslow and his henchman Jim show up to rob the safe, but Louise is working late on the books. She discovers them, but Jim tells her that Morrow is one hard customer and when he finds his safe has been emptied, he will most likely have her jailed for theft, since she and Morrow are the only ones who know the safe combination. They leave with the loot, and Louise thinks maybe she might be better off gone herself, since she has no way to prove she wasn't involved. She calls her brother and heads for his mountain retreat and, via a telegram left on his desk, learns that he has gone to Chicago to sign a contract with his publisher. But his faithful dog Muro is there to greet her. But the big-city detectives have traced Louise as far as Pine Points, Nevada, where they lose her trail. To relieve her monotony Louise makes a long-distance acquaintanceship with Norman Bard , an airmail pilot whose ship flies over the house each day. Bard drops Lousie copies of the Nevada News each day. Meanwhile, Winslow and Jim have also trekked westward and have just robbed the bank in the town where Louise goes grocery shopping. They make an escape and end up at Louise's hideout. She gets away long enough to climb up on the roof and write the message "Help." Bard sees the message and lands his plane and heads for the house.
- Reed Lathrop returns to his old home, accompanied by his friend, "Toad" Hunter, to investigate a plot that forces ranchers to sell their properties for very low prices. Finding the ranchers demoralized, he organizes a vigilance committee and enlists the aid of the local circuit judge. Darnell, the owner of the saloon, and Blodgett, a local dealer in ranch property, are unmasked as the culprits. Soon a showdown takes place with the ranchers and the outlaws, ending with the criminals hauled off to prison.
- In a picturesque surroundings of Southeast Serbia, a group of miners try to make their job better, but their boss is a crook who only exploits them. They leave him in order to succeed on their own.
- The crook "Shrimp" Riley and his wounded friend Jimmy Lamar, hides out at the home of fortune-teller Crystal Annie.
- Cowhand Bill becomes known as the Fighting Terror, when he sets out to get revenge on the outlaw gang that shot and killed his brother. The gang operates on the California/Nevada border and, with the help of a crooked sheriff, crosses the state line to thwart pursuit and capture from pursuing posses. Bill ignores the state line in his vengeance quest.
- Civil war in the Caucasus. Ukrainian Nikolai Barabash is wounded in battle. He is saved, cured and loved by a Chechen girl called Dzalma. After the war, Nikolai and Dzhalma return to his native Ukrainian village. Part of the villagers, the elders, hostilely greet the young Muslim woman, this "non-Christian soul".
- Jed Campbell, a "skypilot," and Nanette, a dance hall girl, meet when each goes to rescue Rex, "King of the Wild Horses," from a trap.
- Operating along the Texas/Mexico border. "Pinto" Quantrell and his gang kidnap a government engraver and force him to make counterfeit plates for United States currency. One of the gang kidnaps Barbara Steelmen, a rancher's daughter, but undercover-agent Jack Beresford outwits the gang and rescues both kidnapped hostages.
- In Lapland, a boy is killed skiing, his brother is killed by a pet reindeer, and father is killed, too.