Things might get a little too curious for George!
An Aesop's Fables cartoon with monkeys monkeying around.
Six sketches, featuring off-screen human voices and on-screen chimpanzees in men's clothing, illustrating six aspects of movie making: script writing, using a camera, working in a darkroom, editing, art and animation, and shooting a scene with special attention to sound. The screen goes black between each sketch. The narration is straightforward with the chimps providing comic, contradicting subtexts.
A hunter is exploring through the rain forest and stumbles upon an orangutan. The hunter is approached by an angel and a devil, who both try to convince him on what action he should take. All while the poor orangutan begs for his life. What will the hunter do?
A group of conservationists take on the task of revitalizing the Balancán, Tabasco, research station and protect the howler monkey.
In a conflict between reason and impulse, a machine and an ape struggle for control of Chris Harding's brain.
"This is a very laughable scene. A guest in a hotel who has retired, is disturbed in his slumbers by a monkey, which enters through the window and goes through a series of queer antics. The part of the monkey is taken by a skilled acrobat; and his work in this scene is of a particularly clever sort." (AMB Picture Catalogue)
Santa Claus arrives at the home of two children and proceeds to tell them stories about monkeys and the nature of his existence.
A robust housekeeper loses control of her new pet monkey, and it quickly trashes her middle-class employer’s home.
Story of a little Javanese boy who adopts a monkey.
Wachiwi and her little brother Peopeo live alone inside a fenced garden. While Peopeo dreams of novelty, Wachiwi determines the boundaries that should ensure their protection.
The Farmer is abducted by a capering Jungle Goddess. As pre-Code as a Terrytoon ever got. Most animation is by Frank Moser; with him are Art Babbitt, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and others.
A hitchhiking pirate gets caught up in a life of crime with a gang of small people.
Another of the "Variety Views" continuing adventures with Shorty the Chimp getting loose and running amok. Tired of waiting at the fire house for a blaze, Shorty sets one in the building himself. At another fire, Shorty makes a jungle-style rescue by climbing hand-over-hand on wires leading into a building.
This documentary profiles some of the 15,000 people across America who raise monkeys, not just as pets, but as surrogate children.
The incidents arising from the escape of a very lively specimen of the monkey tribe from its cage provide a series of scenes calculated to arouse many bursts of hearty laughter, for the animal makes very good use of his freedom, to the terror of every one. Up lamp posts, through windows into bedrooms, now nearly captured, only to slip through the net surrounding him, startling the whole neighborhood. He leads his owner a lively and exciting chase which is comical in the extreme. Finally in a most unusual manner the monkey is captured and taken back to his cage. (Moving Picture World)
A pioneering effort in bringing shadow puppetry to the cinema.
A little monkey fakes death to evade the law.
Lost film.
Bigorno gets a visit to his seaside estate from a traveler, who brings a monkey and bric-a-brac for his wife and mother-in-law, and some opium for him.