“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)
An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the growth of her child enters, places her baby in care of the professor, who promptly places it in the incubator. An alcohol lamp is lighted under the apparatus, but the professor evidently gets his machine too hot, for in a few seconds the top is opened and the baby taken out. To the great anger of its mother it has grown about two feet in height and has long hair and a full beard. (Edison Catalog)
It is winter and a couple invites an old woman to eat. The old woman then becomes a fairy and makes the spring appears.
Esta es la primera versión cinematográfica de la famosa historia. Alice duerme en un jardín, despertada por un conejo blanco vacilante con chaleco y reloj de bolsillo. Ella lo sigue por un agujero y se encuentra en un pasillo de muchas puertas.
A magical woman and her magical eggs.
The story begins with the finding of a wonderful peach which comes floating down a small stream and is brought to shore by a little Japanese woman, who takes it to her home. It there transpires that she and her husband are still mourning the loss of a baby, and the wonderful peach when it is cut brings healing to their sorrow, for as the father's hands separate the two parts of the luscious fruit, between them miraculously appears the figure of a tiny baby.
A widower becomes infatuated with his daughter's governess, to the displeasure of the child and her nurse.
The adventures of Baby Peggy in her own house.
Pete Quilliam (Carl Brisson) es pescador, y su gran amigo desde la infancia, Philip Christian (Malcom Keen), quien ahora ejerce como abogado, viajan a la Isla de Man, donde Philip ha conseguido empleo a su amigo. La hija del empleador es una preciosa chica llamada Kate Cregeen (Anny Ondra) y, al conocerla, ambos amigos quedan prendados de ella, pero ante la efusividad y la atención que ella le presta a Pete, el abogado decide guardar prudente distancia dispuesto a ver qué ocurre entre ellos. Pero pronto el destino hará que Pete y Kate se separen durante un tiempo... y entonces, el joven pide a su amigo que cuide de su prometida hasta su regreso.
A young man trying to win the attentions of a pretty lady gets lumbered with another woman's baby, beginning a cascade of misunderstandings, close shaves with trams and a humorous policeman…
A man believes that the baby in his livingroom is the "surprise" his wife messaged him about, and must contend with the real father's attempts to get his daughter back.
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
Jeff y Cash encuentran un bebé, y es Cash quien decide hacerse cargo de él. Con el paso del tiempo los dos amigos llegan a ser propietarios de dos ranchos vecinos, pero entre ellos surgen problemas: la hermosa hija Jeff es uno de ellos (FILMAFFINITY)
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
After hours, individuals on various magazine covers in a drugstore come to life and sing, speak, or perform. Caricature celebrity depictions include George Arliss, Eddie Cantor, Sonja Henie, Benito Mussolini, Ignacy Paderewski, Edward G. Robinson, Will Rogers, and Ed Wynn. A robbery sequence features bad guys breaking into the cash register and Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on the case. King Kong also makes an appearance. A Merrie Melody cartoon.
Un bebé es transportado a Lullaby Land, donde los chupetes crecen en los árboles, los pañales, los biberones y los orinales marchan en un desfile, y el perro a cuadros cobra vida. Se adentra en la cueva de "mantener fuera", llena de cosas como tijeras, cuchillos y plumas estilográficas que no son para bebés y comienza a romper relojes con martillos y jugar con fósforos gigantes. Los fósforos lo persiguen; el bebé escapa montando una pastilla de jabón a través de un estanque, pero el humo de los fósforos se convierte en hombres del saco. El benevolente hombre de arena, vestido como un mago, ve al bebé escondido y hace su magia, llevándonos de regreso a la verdadera guardería.
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
When Popeye takes the baby for a walk in the stroller, the little one won't be quiet unless he's sleeping. Of course there's no end of noisiness.
Philip, un estudiante de medicina, se enamora perdidamente de una camarera llamada Mildred. Ella, que le hace creer que también lo ama, ejerce sobre el joven un influjo tan poderoso que, a pesar de las humillaciones y desprecios a que lo somete, vuelve con ella una y otra vez. Esta situación de inestabilidad lo lleva a fracasar en los estudios, pero entonces empieza a comprender cuáles son las verdaderas intenciones de Mildred.