C/U of a piece of paper. The animators' hands are in shot as he pours a drop of ink onto the paper. This ink spot moves and grows until it forms our friend Jerry in silhouette. He scratches his head and says: "If I had a banjo now I'd look a real nigger minstrel."
Part of the Gumps 2-reel comedy series of shorts
Bill Lawson (Eddie O'Reilly), a wharf labourer, loses his job and decides to go out bush to find work to support his wife Elsa (Stella Southern) and daughter Betty. He befriends a well-born Englishman, Kenneth Hillyard (Rawdon Blandford) after rescuing him from two thugs and the two decide to go prospecting together.
Animation short film by Paul Leni.
The Soviet Russia of 1920s. A group of Estonians, including young woman Agnes and her mother, Agnes’s friend engineer Karl Raudsepp and his fiancee Erna, are waiting for permission to return to Estonia. Love, however, won’t ask about people’s plans, poor conditions nor general atmosphere of violence. The mutual feelings between Karl and Agnes make Erna so jealous that she will make a false complaint about Agnes to Cheka. Agnes’s beauty hypnotizes both Tchekist Commissar Miroschtschenko and secret agent Hevelyn – both of them make up their minds that they must win the girl’s heart.
Pre-title reads: "In this third film of a new All-British Cartoon Series." Animation. A U.I.C. production featuring "Jerry the Troublesome Tyke".
A silent social drama exploring themes of treason and retribution. The film would have told a moralistic tale about a character who acts as an "enemy of the nation" and faces divine or karmic punishment for their actions.
A documentary with 65 intertitles about life and work at Oberlin House, a home for deafblind people in Nowawes near Potsdam.
When baby-care-book author Glenn Tryon has an abandoned baby dumped on him during a train trip, he discovers he should have read a book on the subject as well as having written one.
A farm owner had a son, Vivia, who played with a settler's daughter. The two grew up together and became very fond of each other; over time, their friendship blossomed into love. Then the father sent the boy to study in the capital. Gigi suffered greatly from his absence and spent her time waiting for his return. Finally, the big day arrived: she learned that the boy was returning. He did return, but he was accompanied by someone else: to marry a girl from the capital. As soon as he arrived, the boy sent for Gigi to introduce her to his wife. This is where the story reached its climax; Gigi resisted the news of the wedding, but could not withstand the final blow. The pain was so great that Gigi poisoned herself and died.
Elizabeth Trent lives alone on a farm with her adopted son, Donald, having been deserted by her husband, John, years earlier when he went to Alaska to make his fortune.
Lost Dora Film production
“The life of the Italian composer.” - BFI.
This film, whose German title is a gender-flipped play on the proverbial phrase “clothes make the man”, shows how the batik dyeing technique is used to create vividly patterned garments in a small retail shop in New York. Different items of clothing are then modelled for the cameras to the, at times, patronising and sexist commentary provided in the intertitles.
Marcus of the New York Times continues his clever changing of character by moving about or adding bits of hair. These changes result in likenesses of Sessue Hayakawa, Pauline Frederick, Theodore Roberts, Anita Stewart and Pola Negri.
Bonzo makes a pie, which explodes.
