A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.
An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.
Gaston Velle's 'Les Fleurs Animées' was screened by the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers as part of their variety act. In their advertising the Corricks described the detailed, hand-coloured production as 'The finest "Color" Film of the Twentieth Century'. Simple camera tricks create a magic fairy story in this tale of angry flowers exacting revenge on a man who has wantonly destroyed their garden.
A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.
Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of his room, but instead of falling to his death, the anchor of a passing balloon intercepts his flight and he is taken high into the clouds. Laughing at his plight, the moon arouses the anger of the desperate lover and a battle between the two ensues.
Johanna loves poor farmer Joachim, yet marries the wealthy miller. One day, Joachim visits Johanna when he is away. When the miller finds out, he takes revenge.
A hobo takes revenge to a miller who didn't give him something to eat.
Una mujer que había rechazado a una gitana por molestar a su novio imagina con temor la posible venganza de esta.
A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first animated films, and stars a cast of animated beetles.
The photographer sends miss Ophelia a dozen photographs of her in different poses. Selecting the best one, she presents it to her favorite boarder, Billy, who does not think much of it and who gets very indignant when it is compared with the photo of his sweetheart. Miss Ophelia goes up to her room in tears and tells her faithful maid, Belinda, that her heart is broken. Belinda goes down and forcibly tells Billy what she thinks of him. Miss Ophelia resolves on suicide, because no one seems to love her. Belinda gets back in time to prevent this and, to divert her mistress, she suggests that they go together to a beauty specialist. Arriving there, both receive attention. Miss Ophelia gets a new complexion, while Belinda gets new teeth. Both invest in new gowns and dresses and the transformation is complete. At supper time, the boarders are all astounded.
Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' picnic is held, and Mabel is the cause of much trouble between Louis and Oscar.
Charlot es un timador de ciudad que induce a Tillie a robar los ahorros de su padre y huya con él. Una vez ha llegado a la ciudad, Charlot se apropia del dinero y vuelve junto a Mabel, su primer amor y pareja del delito. Esta considerado como el primer largometraje del genero de comedia de la historia.
The unexpected arrival of his mother-in-law causes uncontrollable hysteria in Kri-Kri's home. Determined to scare her off, indeed get rid of her, he starts developing Machiavellian plans. Trying to poison, sabotage and beat her up, Kri-Kri stops at nothing to attempt to frighten his terrible mother-in-law, to the great displeasure of his sweet wife.
On New Year's Eve, the convicted murderer, Strong Henry, escapes from prison and collects his son from the orphanage. When he breaks into a local manor to get some milk for his child, he is surprised by a young woman, Eva. Out of pity, she decides to help the stranger, but unfortunately some of the manor's other occupants wake up and call the police. Fourteen years later, Henry is released from prison. Convinced that Eva betrayed him, he sets out to take revenge and find his son.
Primera versión de la conocida novela de Julio Verne, que contó a lo largo de los años con nuevas adaptaciones, siendo la más conocida la de 1954, dirigida por Richard Fleischer y protagonizada por Kirk Douglas. (FILMAFFINITY)
William Baldwin, ruined in business by his partner, John Blaisdell, implores Blaisdell's aid, and receives in answer a five-dollar bill across the face of which is written, "Spend this for a gun and use it on yourself."
It is a variation on the original legend of Alraune in which a Mad Scientist creates a beautiful but demonic child from the forced union between a woman and a Mandrake root. Not to be confused with the 1918 German version of Alraune.
Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.
Oscar Krug es visto con recelo por sus vecinos debido a su apellido. Cuando los Estados Unidos declaran la guerra a Alemania, un grupo de ciudadanos ataca a Krug. Se encuentran con una fuerte oposición de Krug y deciden dejarlo abandonado. Bill Tavish, su mayor oponente, se convierte en su mejor amigo y juntos recorren los mares como capitán y primer oficial. Krug se casa con Alice Morse en contra de los deseos de su familia, siendo expulsada de su hogar, por lo cual se queda en el barco con su marido. Durante un ataque de un submarino alemán, Alice le es arrebatada a Krug por un oficial alemán. Krug, preso de ira, planea una terrible venganza...
The defense attorney who was unable to obtain the acquittal of an innocent young man concocts a complicated and diabolical scheme to revenge himself upon the prosecutor.