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- A group of soldiers in a café watch a dancer as she entertains them, but later two of them become rivals over her.
- Dorothy is a film fan from the middle west, who arrives in Los Angeles to visit relatives. Neal, a cashier of a local bank, is her fiance. She shows such interest in motion picture comedians that he impersonates Charlie Chaplin and visits her at the home of her relatives, wrecking the place and stealing her gems. He is arrested and sent to jail for thirty days, during which time she is cured of her infatuation. When released he returns without the disguise and is accepted on the old footing.
- A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.
- Felix starts to worry that, because he's a black cat, he may be a jinx. In fact, he worries about that so much that he becomes morose, doesn't eat and begins to get thin and scrawny. He realizes that it's not good for his health and that in order to get better, he has to learn how to laugh so he'll eat more.
- Two Scotland Yard detectives travel to New York to investigate the "Fuzz-Faced Phantom": a strange entity who seemingly has the power to cause bizarre, surreal incidents.
- Only the first reel is known to survive. Bill and Jennie marry over his aunt's objections. As the couple leaves on their honeymoon, his aunt shows up to chaperon. A luggage mix-up causes jealousy and suspicion.
- A burlesque on love in the stone age.
- Louise gets hired as a maid for a swank society party, but the it's really a set up for a bunch of tough jewel robbers. She gets hold of the swag and a big slapstick chase along a highway and beach ensues.
- A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the football team. The big game includes unusual things like a mud hole on the field and a wasp nest substituting for the ball.
- The great detective Sherlock Holmes, near death after having contracted a rare and usually fatal Asiatic disease, is determined to solve one last murder case before he passes on.
- The day's takings from a shop are stolen and an employee gives chase to catch the crooks.
- The scout troop give a circus in which they use the dogs belonging to nearly everybody in town and the owners break up the show by seeking to reclaim their pets.
- A man is offered a great job, but with two drawbacks: it's on the other side of the country, and he has to be there by a certain date--and he's broke. He sets out anyway, and along the way gets tangled up with escaped convicts and long-distance runners.
- When a woman's voracious appetite causes her to gain weight, her husband starts spending evenings with a slender married woman. When the spouses arrive and catch the philandering pair together, they all reconsider their decisions.
- In 1830, a train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays. The engineer is prepared for most of them, but the real challenges come when the train is ambushed by Indians.
- Lloyd, as a milkman, is hired to give lessons in table manners to an ex-sheepherder that has become a newly-rich oil magnate.
- Jackie and Tom are assistants in a nursery. Their job is to take care of the babies which tired mothers leave there while doing their shopping. Their duties are numerous, for the nursery is equipped with cubby-holes in which each baby is stored and a machine which bathes and dresses the infants. -The Mayor lives next door to the nursery and the noise and the tricks which Jack and Tom play on him annoys him so that he decides to spend the rest of the summer at Restwell Springs. Hardly has he become settled there before the nursery forces, accompanied by a few of the babies, arrive on the scene. Jack and Tom don't lose any time in starting mischief. Finally the Mayor in desperation calls the council together and proposes an ordinance prohibiting babies being born under twenty years of age. Their deliberations are interrupted by the kids, who have succeeded In substituting a hornet's nest for a roast and the hornets successfully break up the meeting. The Mayor chases the kids into the woods. Determined on revenge they procure a bear skin and attempt to frighten the Mayor who sees through the trick and lays for them with his cane. But a real bear emerges from the woods and chases the Mayor back to the hotel. The sick guests of the sanitarium suddenly regain their health and discard wheelchairs and crutches in a wild scramble for safety. The bear follows and soon clears out the hotel. Jackie and Tom are enjoying the fun hugely when the bear catches sight of them. They climb into their daschund-o-mobile but the dog refuses to pull until he sees the bear headed for them and then he dashes off down the road at express-train speed.
- The burly proprietor of the Business Man's Gymnasium and Cafe is in a hole. Among all his strong-arm pupils there isn't a soda mixer in the lot and the patronage of the soda fountain is suffering. He hangs out a "man wanted" sign and awaits results. A knock comes on the door and in walks an old lady. With her is her son Lloyd, who applies for the job as soda-jerker. He is accepted, dons his apron and starts mixing the drinks. As a soda-counter man, Lloyd is a total loss with no insurance. He tries to copy the artful style of his fellow workers at the fountain but only succeeds in spilling the drinks all over the place. He has little better luck serving the food orders. A patron orders a stuffed tomato and Lloyd, watching his co-worker tries it himself. He stuffs it with everything behind the counter until it is stretched all out of shape. When the customer sticks it with his fork, it explodes in his face. For this Lloyd is taken from behind the counter and set to work in the gymnasium as an instructor. He tries to teach the class a lesson in Indian.club work but makes a mistake with his orders and the entire class is knocked out. When he tries to show them how to perform on the flying rings, he puts them all into a state of horror by his healthy swings which carry him out of the window high over the city below. The proprietor comes in just in time to see Lloyd do something more foolish than ordinary. He gets sore and tells Lloyd that he is going to give him boxing lessons. On the floor above a lady is taking exercise and jumps up and down. Her weight dislodges one of the globes on the light in the ceiling below, just above the head of the gymnasium proprietor. Just as Lloyd swings, the globe hits the proprietor on the head, knocking him out on his feet. Other globes fall until the burly instructor is completely out, and Lloyd is hailed as the gym champion.
- Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
- A junk man travels to Africa to find a rare metal-eating bird.
- A young boy falls for his widowed father's efficient secretary, who has more sense than them both.
- 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?
- A cat and mouse are out together when the cat tries to steal his mouse companions girlfriend. The mice escape to a club where they go dancing, only to be pursued by the cat again. But they eventually escape and fly off into the sunset.
- A farm girl visits her cousin, an out-of-work actress, in Hollywood. Men flock to the fresh-faced newcomer, including the head of a movie studio, whose house they borrow to throw a wild Hollywood party.
- When Jimmie's girl pays him little attention, he proceeds to follow a tip and "treat'em rough." Real caveman stuff follows, and somehow he wins the girl with it. But during the wedding the groom is kidnapped and forced to put on a convict's uniform--and then he meets an actual gang of prisoners working on the road.
- A wife refuses to allow her husband to go to the prize fight because no women are allowed. When she discovers that he has gone she dresses up in male attire and secures a ring side seat.
- As Prohibition takes effect, an irate wife throws away all of the Judge's liquor and sends him to a temperance lecture. While waiting for it to start, he tries the liquor substitute from the establishment across the street.
- A wealthy business man organizes a race. One the competitors is in love with his daughter. A love triangle develops with another competitor. Whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit her, leading to plenty of action.
- A family is at their dining room table, sitting upright and dressed for dinner--except they're all dead. Sherlock Holmes must figure out how--and, more importantly, why--they were murdered.
- A partly-animated short film, a fairy-tale-like telling of why the nightingale only sings at night. A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the nightingale and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not made to be captive but free. In return for its freedom, the nightingale loans the child its voice for use in the daytime, which is why nightingales only sing at night.
- Two golf pros challenge Andy and Marjorie to a game.
- When Hamilton is kicked out of his home by his father, he lives in a park until a girl brings him to a rescue mission. But there, though innocent, it appears he's robbed the collection basket.
- A young man secretly marries his girl and then smuggles her into his parent's home dressed as a boy chum of his.
- Felix goes to a fortune teller and then an astrologer to learn his future.
- Felix saves a girl doll from a dog, and the doll comes to life and falls for Felix. She takes him to Toyland, where he must save her from the designs of the evil Pierrot. As it turns out, though, she's not quite as helpless as she might seem to be.
- Mona Lisa loves Piero, who is badly in debt. A wealthy man assists him and threatens to withhold his money if Piero does not marry his daughter. Piero marries the latter, telling Mona his marriage will not interfere with their love. Seven years pass - Mona is married to a man much older than she. She discusses her love and marriage with her cousin, and claims that married love can not endure unless it is founded on respect, and the cousin doubts if marriage can be successful if founded only on respect. Piero calls and says he has always regretted, and she claims she has never ceased to regret. They plan to elope. The cousin overhears the conversation and runs to tell Piero's wife. At midnight, Piero enters and finds a muffled figure awaiting him. As he is about to leave with this woman, he is confronted by his wife. He explains he loves Mona, and tears off the cloak. It is not Mona Lisa but her cousin. In the corner they see Mona. She asks Piero if he thinks she planned this for revenge or that her cousin tried to save her from herself. She tells him he will always wonder. When her husband returns with Da Vinci, they find Mona Lisa seated with an enigmatic expression on her face. Da Vinci decides to sketch her portrait saying that generations will wonder what that smile means.
- A burlesque on the life of a sailor at sea.
- Al takes the Overland Limited for the open spaces and on the way encounters the girl, who is much sought by a pair of yegg-men, who would capture her and hold her until her father delivered to them the deed to the rich mine he owns. After much horse- play in which Al thwarts the villains after they have taken the girl, it all comes out right in the end.
- On a business trip, a Lothario arranges for his happily married friend to go on a double date. Unfortunately, the operator accidentally connected the married man's wife on the call. Hijinx ensue.
- Charlie wants to be a golfer. Bert is a famous golfer. Thelma is a golf groupie. Charlie tries to become the world's greatest golfer to win Thelma's love. A not-so friendly bet with her father adds incentive to the match.
- A patient-less doctor gets a job in a hospital.